Music 181: Music Theory I
Steve Saunders


MW 2:30-3:45
Email/phone: [email protected]/x5677
Office: Bixler 235

Course Syllabus/Textbook/

Powerpoints from Class

Class Handouts/Reserve Readings

  • Get PDF Answers to Exam #1 Practice Test.
  • Get PDF Self-Test: Note Names and Clef-Reading.
  • Get PDF Structure of the Major Scale.
  • Get PDF Structure of the Minor Scale.
  • Get PDF Calculating Intervals.
  • Get PDF Inversions of Intervals, Compound Intervals, Dissonance.
  • Get PDF Seventh Chords.
  • Get PDF Salzer & Schachter, Counterpoint in Composition (New York: Columbia U. P., 1989), pp. 39-47.
  • Get PDF Allen Forte, Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982), pp. 41-45.
  • Go to Timothy Cutler's "Tonal Music Theory Examples: A Collection of Scores and Sound Files"

On-line Musical Scores

  • Get PDF Franz Schubert, "Der Müller und der Bach" from Die schöne Müllerin
  • Get PDF Francois Couperin, "Rigaudon," from the 12th Ordre.
  • Get PDF W. A. Mozart, Sonata in F Major, K. 332, (excerpt, mm. 145 ff).
  • Get PDF Ludwig van Beethoven, 7 Variations on "God Save the King," WoO 78
  • Get PDF Franz Schubert, "Gute Nacht" (from Die Winterreise)
  • Get PDF J. S. Bach, Flute Sonata, BWV 1033, Minuet I
  • Get PDF Fr. Chopin, Waltz in b minor, Op. 69, no. 2
  • Get PDF Fr. Chopin, Nocturne in g minor Op. 37, no. 1
  • View Answer Key to Fr. Chopin, Waltz in b minor, Op. 69, no. 2
  • Get PDF Stephen Foster, "Gentle Annie"
  • Go to Timothy Cutler's "Tonal Music Theory Examples: A Collection of Scores and Sound Files"

Streaming Audio Reserves

    Listen to Francois Couperin, "Rigaudon" from Ler livre de piéces de clavecin:


    Listen to Schubert, "Gute Nacht" from Die Winterreise:


    Listen to Schubert, "Der Müller und der Bach" from Die schöne Müllerin:


    Anon., L'Echo, (A/S, p. 52):


    Listen to Chopin, "Waltz in b minor," Op. 69, no. 2:


    Listen to Chopin, "Nocturne in g minor," Op. 37, no. 1:


    Listen to Stephen Foster, "Gentle Annie":


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