Music in a Post-Industrial Society

Below are links to material that has been developed in the past, some of which could be modified for this project.

Part I: Music in a Post-Industrial Society
Paper on "The Seven Second Free Zone: A Call For Change In Copyright Law" and court cases affecting hip-hop sampling
Midwest Music Business: A Primer

Part II: Music Theory

Rudiments
Music Theory 1 
Schedule
  1. pitches on the treble and bass clefs, major scale, diatonic triads, harmonizing melodies
  2. intervals, triads in major and minor keys
  3. seventh chords [ worksheet ]
  4. how to play seventh chords with two hands
  5. ii7  V7  Imaj7 progression
  6. chords in open position
  7. blues scale, 12-bar blues progression, reading and performing more complex rhythms
  8. secondary dominant chords, ABAC and AABA forms
  9. chords in open position
  10. analyzing "I Want To Hold Your Hand, GM and .MID files
  11. fills
  12. modulation
  13. drum notation
  14. turnarounds
  15. review
Music Theory 2
Schedule
Music Appreciation
Listening Enrichment
Part III: Songwriting for Amateurs
Week 2: Rhyme schemes, clever lyrics, story development, harmonizing a melody, chord symbols, the Nashville Number
Week 3: What is a "pop" song? What makes a hit? Songs by Max Martin, diatonic chords, setting the title, prosody, writing melodies, hooks
Week 4: Pop music style, the function of the bridge, secondary dominants
Week 7: What is rock style? rock lyrics, collage lyrics, drumset notation, the harmonic language of The Beatles, how to write a pre-chorus

How to read and write lead sheets
How to harmonize a melody

Listening Enrichment
Part IV: Learn to Improvise
Scales that fit with chords
Exotic scales
Altered tones

Listening






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