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See http://www.teoria.com/ for music exercises online in Spanish and English.  You can also quiz yourself.

http://www.artdsm.com/music.html: This link teaches you how to play the piano online.

Music Fundamentals - Weekly Review       

Week 1 

Overview

What is music? Organized sound through time.

• Organization, Expression, Culture, Society, Politics, Aesthetics

• Elements of Music: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Form

Reading Musical Notation

• Sound and Silence (off and on, 1's and 0's)

• Beat - Rhythm

• Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth

• Practice Counting and Reading Rhythms

Week 2 

• Review Meter Notation

• Rhythmic Dictation

• Simple Meters, Complex Meters, Odd

Week 3

• Properties of Sound: Pitch, Intensity, Duration, Timbre

• Elements of Music: Dynamics, Melody, Harmony, Form, Rhythm

• Musical Alphabet: abcdefg

• Five Finger C Major Hand Position

• Pitch Notation - Staff: Lines and Spaces

• Treble Clef: "egbdf" and "face"

• Rhythmic Dictation: Meter Review: 8th notes and Triplets in 2/4; 3/4; 4/4

Week 4

• Tempo: Grave, Adagio, Moderato, Allegretto, Allegro, Presto

• Bass Clef: "gbdfa" and "aceg"

• Practice Reading Skills

• Octaves

• CC, C, c, c1, c2, c3, c4, c5

Weeks 5-6

• Practice Exercises: Notes and Rhythms

• Duet Exercises: LH/RH (Conjunct/Disjunct)

• Intervals

Week 7-9

• Interval Exercises

• Duet Exercises: LH/RH (Harmonic Intervals and Melodic Intervals)

• Review

• Midterm Examination