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	Week 1
	Week 2
	Week 3
	Week 4
	Exam 1
	Week 5
	Week 6
	Week 7
	Exam 2
	Week 8
	Week 9
	Week 10
	Final Exam

These are the assignments for Music 15100, Larry Zbikowski's undergraduate harmony course at the University of Chicago, Autumn term 2007. Please be aware that assignments beyond those for the current week are provisional. If you have uestions about any assignment (current or future), be sure to contact me.

Week 1 (9/24—9/28)

Class notes

There were no assignments for the first week of class.

Class notes

for 10/1

Assignment #1: Complete the worksheets on scales and intervals distributed in class on 9/28.

for 10/3

Purchase Brian Hyer’s A Manual for Species Counterpoint, which is available in the Humanities Division's mail room and copy center in Walker 003. The cost is $6.00. And, once you've got it, read pp. 1-30.

for 10/5

Assignment #3:

1. Complete the worksheets on species counterpoint distributed in class.
2. Write first-species counterpoint above and below cantus firmus #19. You will find a collection of cantus firmi (if that’s the correct plural) at the end of the Manual for Species Counterpoint.

Class notes

for 10/10

Assignment #3:

1. Complete the worksheets on intervals and key signatures that were distributed in class.
2. Write first-species counterpoint above and below cantus firmus #22.

Class notes

EXAM 1, Friday, 10/19.

Review materials are now available for the exam.

Week 5 (10/22—10/26)

Class notes

for 10/26

Assignment #5: Write second species counterpoint above and below c.f. 17 and c.f. 22.

Class notes

Tonal cadences (including the V⁷-I cadence); four-part writing, harmonic inversion, and the basics of seventh chords.

for 10/29

Assignment #6: Complete the worksheets on triads; the worksheets were distributed in class on 10/26.

for 11/2

Assignment #7:

1. Complete the worksheets on cadence formulae that were distributed in class on 10/31.
2. Write second-species counterpoint above and below c.f. 25. Note that this c.f. is in Phrygian mode.

Class notes

Continuation of work with second-species counterpoint and tonal cadences.

for 11/5

Assignment #8:

1. Complete the worksheet on seventh chords that was distributed in class on 11/2.
2. Write second-species counterpoint above and below c.f. 10. Note that this c.f. is in Mixolydian mode.

EXAM 2, Friday, 11/9.

Week 8 (11/12—11/16)

Class notes

An introduction to figured bass; outer-voice counterpoint using chordal inversions; four-part writing over the phrase.

N.B.: Class will not meet 11/16—this class will be made up on 11/30.

Class notes

Inversions of dominant seventh chords; rhythmic figuration and accompaniment patterns. No class on the Friday after Thanksgiving (University holiday).

Resolution of inverted seventh chords.

Class notes