Software Tutorials These materials can help you hack your way through the thorny paths of modern technology. Some of them are QuickTime videos; you may need to get the QuickTime player in order to view them. If you don't have it already, click here for …

Eartraining Software   Kapelle Eartraining Applications Kapelle is a series of eartraining programs, written for Microsoft Windows by Scott Foglesong. You may access more information about the software, including download links and instructions, by …

Print Staff Paper   These files are PDFs (Adobe Acrobat) that you can use to print staff paper. 10-line with a place for your name, 2 pages worth 10-line with treble and bass clef, room for harmonic analysis below 12-line with musicsheaf.com logo on the …

Workbook Recordings Chapter 7 Page 52: Anonymous, "L'Écho" Chapter 8 Page 56: 1. Beethoven, Piano Sonata, Op. 26, I Page 56: 2. Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 ("Italian"), III Page 57: 3. Bach, Chorale 1 Page 57: 4. Schumann, Arabesque, Op. 18 Page …

Kapelle Dictation   Kapelle Dictation is the workhorse application of the Kapelle series of programs. It is designed to read in specially-prepared music notation files and treat them like dictation exercises. It can handle melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic …

Kapelle Clefs   Kapelle Clefs trains you in playing notes in all seven clefs -- the five 'C' clefs plus the more familiar treble and bass.  Exercises are simple: the program will give you 20 notes in a single clef (or a combination of clefs) at various …

Kapelle Scales   Kapelle Scales trains you in hearing, writing, and recognizing scales in a variety of exercises and activities, including the church modes, pentatonic and octatonic scales, synthetic modes, and so forth. The exercises themselves are …

Kapelle Intervals   Kapelle Intervals trains you in hearing, writing, and recognizing intervals in a variety of exercises and activities. The exercises themselves are designed using a separate program (not available from this website) allowing the program …

Running the Kapelle Programs on CrossOver Mac The Kapelle programs run just fine right on Mac OS X, using the program "CrossOver Mac" from CodeWeavers. CrossOver Mac emulates the necessary operating system support for Windows applications. It doesn't …

Harmony Tutor   From Scott Foglesong: HarmonyTutor is a small, simple application that I wrote in order to teach myself the VisualBasic language. It is a sophisticated version of an old HyperCard program I wrote back in the 1980s. It plays chords for you, …

Reading Aldwell-Schachter Profitably Aldwell-Schachter’s Harmony and Voice Leading is filled with terrific information. It covers the basics of Western tonal practice with breathtaking thoroughness. It is, however, disfigured by a downright glutinous …

Voice-Leading Flowchart IF the soprano moves by leap    IF the bass is moving in the same direction      Fill in the soprano interval      Check for hidden octaves and fifths  IF there is a leading tone in the chord    Check for a doubled leading tone  IF …

Table of Standard Errors Music Theory 221 - 224 Part One: Truly Egregious Errors To Be Avoided At All Costs Error Textbook References Notes Parallel 1, 5, 8 Pgs 72 – 73   Hidden 5, 8 Pg 75 Outer voices only when soprano moves by leap Doubled LT     …

A Few Reminders to Consider: 1. In minor keys, it’s crucial to remember to raise the leading tone. That’s probably the #1 cause for homework assignments which should have been A’s or B’s coming out as C’s or D’s. 2. The three basic harmonic functions are: …

What Does Musical Analysis Tell Us? Extracted from Nicholas Cook: A Guide to Musical Analysis, Chapter 6  Annotations (paragraphs in italics ) by Scott Foglesong  There are plenty of clearly defined techniques of musical analysis, but it is not always too …

A Suggested Outline for an Analysis Paper Part I: Background This can provide historical background to the composition of the work in question. It needn’t be terribly involved, but at the same time there may be historical aspects that have bearing on the …

Motives Assignments: Recordings Click on the links below to play the selection: 01 - E Major 2/4 02 - G Minor 3/4 03 - C Minor 3/4 04 - G Major 2/4 05 - C Minor 3/4 06 - E-flat Major 3/4 07 - A Major 3/4 08 - F Minor 2/4 09 - A Major 3/8 10 - E Major 3/8 …

Motives Click on an example for playback … … Motives …

Cadences Assignment Identify all of the cadence types (both harmonic and structural) in the following four selections. Each is available as a PDF file, and there is a recording available of each as well. Beethoven: Seven Peasant Dances, No. 4 WoO 168 …

Cadences  Click on musical examples for playback I. Harmonic Types A. Authentic Perfect Imperfect B. Plagal C. Deceptive D. Half Approached directly to V Approached via cadential 64 “Phrygian” cadence in minor II. Structural Types A. Delayed Cadence …