Music Theory Classes

Music Theory for Youth Syllabus

Levine’s music theory classes foster critical music literacy skills. This curriculum is designed to help all Levine students to develop a deep understanding of the music they are performing, and to provide them with a set of skills to pursue creative endeavors in music.

Each theory level corresponds to a level in Levine’s keyboard-skills curriculum. The keys, scales, and concepts taught in each level of the theory sequence correspond to those of the keyboard-skills sequence.

Workbooks for Primer Level and Level 1 are available for beginning piano students ages 6+. These workbooks can be purchased here. An in-person Primer Level class is available for ages 6-8. Online Level 1-10 classes are available for students ages 8+. Students ages 8+ who wish to complete a theory course in person should enroll in a Music Theory Lab class that is appropriate for their age.

Primer Level (ages 6+)

Written workbook for piano students and in-person class for students ages 6-8.

Rhythm

  • Note Values: Quarter, half, whole, dotted half
  • Rests: Quarter, half, whole
  • Time Signatures: 3/4, 4/4
  • Other: ties, barlines, double barline, repeat sign

Pitch on Keyboard

  • Identify white key pitches using black key groups
  • Steps and skips on keyboard

Pitch on Staff

  • Treble clef, bass clef, grand staff
  • Guide notes: F3, C4, G4
  • Treble and bass clef pitches between C3 and C5

Intervals

  • Steps on the staff
  • Skips on the staff
  • Half steps
  • Sharps and flats: F#, C#, G#, Bb, Eb
  • Whole Steps

Scales

  • Major pentascales: C, G, D, A, E
  • Minor pentascales: C, G, D, A, E
  • Functional scale degree names: 1, 5
  • Lower third step for minor pentascales

Chords

  • Major triads: C, G, D, A, E
  • Minor triads: Cm, Gm, Dm, Am, Em
  • Inversions: Root position
  • Functional chords: tonic triad (root position)

Composition

  • Compose melodies in given pentascale; quarter, half, and whole -note rhythms

Signs and Terms

  • Dynamics: f, p, mf, cresc., dim.
  • Tempo: rit.
  • Other: 8va
Level 1 (workbooks ages 6+, classes ages 8+)

Written workbook or classes (online and in-person)

Students 8+ and non-piano students may begin at this level.

Rhythm

  • Note Values: Quarter, half, whole, dotted half
  • Time Signatures: 3/4, 4/4
  • Rests: Quarter, half, whole
  • Ties
  • Unit 1 Project – Compose a rhythm set to words

Pitch

  • The staff, treble clef pitches between E4 and G5
  • Bass pitches between G2 and A3
  • Grand staff, notation rules
  • Generic steps and skips
  • Half steps, sharps and flats excluding B#/Cb, E#/Fb

Scales

  • Half steps and whole steps, the major tetrachord
  • Major scales: C, G, D, A, E
  • Scale degrees, solfege syllables, functional scale names: 1, 5
  • Minor scales: A minor, relative minor, natural and harmonic minor
  • Ear Training: Hearing major vs. minor in short melodies

Key Signatures

  • Order of sharps (up to four sharps)
  • Major key signatures: C, G, D, A, E
  • Identifying the key of a score

Intervals

  • Intervals: unison, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8va
  • Ear Training: Interval comparison with generic intervals

Chords

  • Major triads: C, G, D, A, E
  • Minor triads: Cm, Gm, Dm, Am, Em
  • Ear Training: Hearing major and minor triads
  • Tonic and Dominant Triads in major Keys

Transposition and Composition

  • Transpose a melody
  • Adding tonic and dominant accompaniment to a melody
  • Compose a melody over tonic and dominant notes, rhythm and scale given.

Signs and Terms

  • Dynamics: f, p, mp, mf, cresc., dim.,
  • Articulation: legato, staccato, accent
  • Tempo: rit., fermata, metronome mark
  • Other: repeat sign, 8va, 15ma
Level 2 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Note values: quarter, half, whole, dotted half, time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
  • Note values: eighths
  • Note values: dotted quarters
  • Note values: Eighths, quarter, half, whole

Pitch

  • Treble and bass clef pitches, up to two ledger lines above/below
  • Notation rules, ledger lines
  • The keyboard, grand staff, and steps
  • Half steps, sharps and flats excluding B#/Cb, E#/Fb

Scales

  • Major scales: C, G, D, A, E, B / F
  • Scale degrees, functional scale degree names: 1, 4, 5, 7 (major only)
  • Minor scales: A, E / D; Relative minor
  • Minor Scales: G, C; Parallel minor, harmonic and natural
  • Minor Scale Forms; Hearing the difference between major, harmonic, and natural minor

 

Key Signatures

  • Order of sharps (up to five sharps), Order of flats (up to three flats)
  • Major key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F
  • Minor Key signatures: A, E / D, G, C
  • Identifying the key of a score, identifying major vs. minor in a score

Intervals

  • Interval sizes: Unison through 8va
  • Interval qualities: Major and perfect (intervals of C, G, D, F)
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of P4, P5, and P8

Chords

  • Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F, Cm, Gm, Dm, Am, Em, Bm, Fm
  • Inversions: Root position, first inversion
  • Functional chords: tonic, subdominant, dominant in root position
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major and minor triads in root position and first inversion

Transposition, Harmony, and Composition

  • Transposition of melody
  • Harmonizing melodies with tonic, subdominant, and dominant
  • Unit 7 Project: Compose a melody over tonic, subdominant, and dominant triads

Signs and Terms

  • Dynamics: pp, ff, sfz
  • Articulation: tenuto, pedal mark
  • Tempo: Allegro, Moderato, Andante, accel.
  • Other: D.C. al Fine, D.C. al Coda
Level 3 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

Review: note values: eighths, quarter, half, whole, dotted half, dotted quarters; time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4

  • Rests: Eighths, quarter, half, whole
  • Triplet eighths and rests
  • Common/cut time, 6/8 time
  • Unit 1 Project – Rhythm Composition

Pitch

  • Treble and bass clef pitches; notation rules, up to three ledger lines above/below
  • Sharps and flats, all pitches; enharmonic notes

Scales

  • Major scales: C, G, D, A, E, B / F; functional scale degree names: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7
  • Natural minor scales: A, E, B / D, G, C, F; relative (A, E, B, D) and parallel (D, G, C, F)
  • Harmonic and melodic minor; concept of subtonic
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major, natural, harmonic, and melodic scales

Key Signatures

  • Order of sharps (up to five sharps), Order of flats (up to four flats)
  • Major key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F
  • Minor Key signatures: A, E, B / D, G, C, F
  • Analysis: identifying major and minor keys in a score

Intervals

  • Interval sizes and qualities: Perfect and Major Intervals (C, G, D, A, E, B/F)
  • Interval qualities: Minor Intervals (above keys)
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of M/m 2, 3; P 4, 5, 8

Chords

Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F

  • Inversions: Root position, first Inversion, second inversion
  • Functional chords: tonic, subdominant, dominant, dominant seventh
  • Inversions of functional triads
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major and minor triads in root position, first inversion, and second inversion

Harmony, Form, Composition

  • Transposition of a melody and chords
  • Parallel periods; compose a parallel period, antecedent phrase given
  • Cadences: authentic, half, and plagal (root position on single staff)

Signs and Terms, Music History

  • Tempo: Allegro, Moderato, Andante, Adagio, Largo, Grave, Presto, Rall.; Coda, D.S. al Fine, D.S. al Coda
  • Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern periods
Level 4 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Review: note values: eighths, quarter, half, whole, triplet eighths; time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, common/cut time, 6/8
  • Sixteenth notes and rests
  • Dotted note review, dotted-eighth notes
  • Triplet sixteenths, notes and rests; 3/8 time

Pitch

  • Treble and bass clef pitches, up to four ledger lines above/below; sharps and flats, all pitches; enharmonic notes

Scales

  • Major scales: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb; functional scale degree names (all)
  • Natural minor scales: A, E, B / D, G, C, F; relative (A, E, B, D) and parallel (D, G, C, F)
  • Review: natural, harmonic, and melodic minor; subtonic
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major, natural, harmonic, and melodic scales

Key Signatures

  • Order of sharps (up to five sharps), order of flats (up to four flats)
  • Major key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb; minor Key signatures: A, E, B / D, G, C, F

Intervals

  • Interval sizes: Unison through 10th, perfect and major (C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb)
  • Interval qualities: minor intervals (above keys)
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of M/m 2, 3, 6, 7; P 4, 5, 8

Chords

  • Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F, Bb, Eb
  • Inversions of triads: Root position, first inversion, second inversion
  • Functional chords: tonic, subdominant, dominant; inversions of functional triads
  • Dominant seventh; Inversions of the dominant seventh
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major/minor triads in all inversions, the dominant seventh in root position

Harmony and Composition

  • Stable and unstable scale degrees at phrase endings; parallel and contrasting periods
  • Cadences review: authentic, half, plagal (root position)
  • Smooth voice leading with primary chords (using inversions found in keyboard cadence figure)
  • Harmonize a melody with primary chords using smooth voice leading
  • Unit 7 Project: Compose a contrasting period; harmonize with chords in smooth voice leading

 

Music History, Form

  • Modified tempo markings: allegretto, adagietto, andantino, larghetto, prestissimo, molto, assai, più/meno mosso, poco a poco, a tempo
  • Italian expression markings: grazioso, cantabile, animato, maestoso, allargando, con moto, dolce, espressivo, agitato, con brio, risoluto
  • Ornaments: grace note, trill, turn, mordent, appoggiatura, acciaccatura
  • The Baroque Era: composers and examples
  • Binary and ternary form
Level 5 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Simple time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 3/8; note values: sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests
  • Compound time signatures: 4/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; writing rests
  • Ear training: Aural meter identification
  • Triplet review (eighth and sixteenth), swing rhythms, syncopation

Scales

  • Major scales: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db; Minor scales: A, E, B / D, G, C, F, Bb
  • Pentatonic scales (major and minor); Blues scale
  • Key Signatures
  • Order of sharps (up to five sharps); order of flats (up to five flats); Major key signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Ab, Db; Minor Key signatures: A, E, B / D, G, C, F, Bb
  • Intervals
  • Interval sizes: Unison through 13th; Interval qualities: perfect, major, minor
  • Augmented and diminished intervals
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of M/m 2, 3, 6, 7; P 4, 5, 8; tritone

Chords

  • Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db
  • Root position, first inversion, second inversion; figured bass symbols
  • Augmented and diminished triads; root position, first inversion, second inversion
  • Diatonic triads in major, plus inversions
  • Diatonic triads in minor, plus inversions
  • The dominant seventh chord and inversions
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major/minor/augmented/diminished triads in all inversions, the dominant seventh in root position

Texture and Harmony

  • Monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic texture; aural ID of textures
  • Open position chords

Form

  • Motives, thematic development
  • Sonata form; Clementi’s Op. 32 No. 2

Music History

  • The Classical Era: composers and examples
  • Blues, Twelve Bar Blues
  • Signs and Terms
Level 6 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Simple time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 4/8; note values: 32nd, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests
  • Compound time signatures: 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4; writing rests

Scales and Key Signatures

  • Major scales and Key Signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db; Minor scales: A, E, B, F#, C# / D, G, C, F, Bb
  • Blues and Pentatonic review, whole-tone and octatonic scales
  • Key Signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B / F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db; Minor scales: A, E, B, F#, C# / D, G, C, F, Bb
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of major, natural, harmonic, melodic, pentatonic, blues scales, whole-tone, and octatonic scales

Intervals

  • Interval sizes: Unison through 13th; Interval qualities: perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished
  • Interval inversion
  • Consonance and dissonance
  • Interval ID – all diatonic intervals

Counterpoint

  • Parallel 3rds and 6ths; perfect and imperfect cadences
  • Alternating 3rds and 6ths
  • Adding diminutions – passing tones and neighbor tone; leaps to a consonance
  • Unit 4 composition – two-voice composition using 3rds and 6ths

Chords

  • Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F#, C#, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db; augmented and diminished triads; root position, first inversion, second inversion; figured bass symbols
  • Diatonic Triads and the dominant seventh, and inversions with figured bass

Harmony

  • Open position chords; keyboard style texture
  • Cadences in keyboard-style texture: perfect/imperfect authentic, half, plagal, and deceptive
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of cadences in keyboard texture

Musical Form and Analysis

  • Other aspects of musical analysis; motives, repetitions, sequences, identifying modulations, passing and neighbor tones in harmony
  • The compound ternary—Chopin Mazurka

Music History, Signs and Terms

  • The Romantic Era: composers and examples
  • Ragtime and Early Jazz
  • Signs and Terms
Level 7 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Simple and compound time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 4/8; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4; 6/16, 9/16, 12/16; note values: 32nd, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests
  • Cross rhythms and hemiola: 3 against 2
  • Asymmetrical meter: 5/4, 5/8, 7/4, 7/8; changing meters

Scales, and Key Signatures

  • Major scales and Key Signatures: C, G, D, A, E, B, F# / F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb; Minor scales: A, E, B, F#, C# / D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb
  • Recognizing the key of a musical excerpt without a key signature
  • The diatonic modes
  • Ear Training: Aural ID of scales and modes

Intervals

  • Double sharps and flats, interval sizes: Unison through 13th; Interval qualities: perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished
  • Interval inversion, writing intervals below a note
  • Consonance and dissonance, interval ID – all diatonic intervals

Counterpoint

  • Review of counterpoint with 3rds and 6ths, perfect and imperfect cadences, diminutions
  • 7-6 and 2-3 suspensions
  • Variants of suspensions, 7-3 and 2-6
  • Embellishing suspensions
  • Unit 4 composition – two-voice composition using suspensions

Chords

  • Major and minor triads: C, G, D, A, E, B, F#, C#, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb; augmented and diminished triads; root position, first inversion, second inversion; figured bass symbols; diatonic triads and inversion with figured bass
  • The dominant seventh, minor seventh, fully and half-diminished seventh chords

Harmony

  • Cadences in keyboard-style texture: perfect/imperfect authentic, half, plagal, and deceptive (in keyboard style texture)
  • Compound cadences that involve suspensions, short chord progressions in keyboard-style texture; introduce ii7 and ii6/5
  • Harmonic analysis of musical examples that include suspensions and seventh chords

Musical Form and Analysis

  • The Early 20th Century: Musical Impressionism
  • Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”

Music History, Signs and Terms

  • Swing and Stride
  • Bebop
  • Signs and Terms
Level 8 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Simple and compound time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 4/8; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4; 6/16, 9/16, 12/16; note values: 32nd, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests
  • Asymmetrical meter with 5 and 7 beats per measure; asymmetrical meter with 9, 8, and 10 beats per measure
  • Hemiola, cross rhythm, polyrhythm and polymeter

Scales and Key Signatures

  • All Major and Minor Scales/Key Signatures
  • The diatonic modes; pentatonic, blues, whole tone, hexatonic, and octatonic scales
  • 20th century applications of scales, pitch sets and collections

Music History

  • Classical music 1920-present
  • Polyrhythmic drumming from West Africa
  • Minimalism

Intervals

  • All intervals unison through 13th; Interval qualities: perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished; interval inversion; writing intervals below a note; consonance and dissonance
  • Interval ID – all diatonic intervals ascending and descending

Chords

  • All major, minor, augmented, and diminished triads; root position, first inversion, second inversion; figured bass symbols; diatonic triads and inversions with figured bass
  • The dominant seventh, major seventh, minor seventh, fully and half-diminished seventh chords; diatonic seventh chords and inversions with figured bass

Harmony and Counterpoint

  • Fauxbourdon (parallel 6/3 chords)
  • 5-6 Monte and 7-6 Fauxbourdon sequences
  • Circle of fifths Sequence (Root Position)
  • Stepwise Romanesca
  • Three-voice cadences
  • Using sequences to modulate to closely related keys, partimento project

Signs and Terms

  • Musical terminology in German
Level 9 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Pitch and Intervals

  • Interval review: all interval qualities; interval inversion; writing intervals below a note
  • Alto and tenor clef
  • Bb, Eb, and F instrument transpositions
  • Score reading; writing reductions

Scales and Key Signatures

  • All Major and Minor Scales/Key Signatures
  • Review of the diatonic modes, uses in Renaissance-era music

Music History

  • The Renaissance Era

Rhythm

  • Simple and compound time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 4/8; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4; 6/16, 9/16, 12/16; note values: 32nd, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests
  • Afro-Cuban and Clave-based rhythms

Latin American Music

  • Latin American Music: Habanera, Tango, Afro-Cuban rumba

Chords

  • All triads and seventh chords review, functional triads and seventh chords in major and minor keys, figured bass symbols, open position

Harmony and Counterpoint

  • Review of simple/compound cadences in three voices, double cadence
  • Stepwise and Leaping Romanescas
  • Circle of fifths: root position, alternating 4/2 and 6/3, alternating 6/5 and 5/3
  • The prinner, circle of fifths prinner, the modulating prinner, connecting a Romanesca to a prinner
  • The fonte, modulation with 4/2 chord, other modulations
  • Unit 8 project: Minuet Composition
Level 10 (ages 8+)

Classes (online and in person)

Rhythm

  • Simple and compound time signatures: 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 4/8; 6/8, 9/8, 12/8; 6/4, 9/4, 12/4; 6/16, 9/16, 12/16; note values: 32nd, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, whole; writing rests

Pitch and Intervals

  • Interval review: all interval qualities; interval inversion; writing intervals below a note
  • Alto and tenor clef review, soprano clef
  • Bb, Eb, and F instrument transpositions review, other transpositions
  • Creating arrangements for small ensembles including transposing instruments and C-clef instruments

Scales and Key Signatures

  • All Major and Minor Scales/Key Signatures
  • Medieval modes
  • Scales and modes of South and East Asian music

Music History

  • The Medieval Era: Gregorian Chant and Polyphony
  • Indian Classical Music
  • Koto

Chords

  • All triads and seventh chords review, functional triads and seventh chords in major and minor keys, figured bass symbols, open position

Harmony and Counterpoint

  • Review of simple/compound/ cadences in three voices, Galant and Neapolitan cadences
  • Review of circle of fifths, Romanesca, fonte, and prinner schemata
  • Rule of the Octave: The ascending pentachord
  • Rule of the Octave: The descending pentachord
  • Rule of the Octave: The ascending tetrachord
  • Rule of the Octave: The descending tetrachord
  • Unit 6 Project: Composing a sonatina movement

Music Theory Adult Syllabus

Online classes for adults are available in three levels: Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced. Potential students may self-select the class based on the description or take the placement test. These asynchronous classes are designed to be taken over 8 weeks. Students can log on any day/time of the week to complete this work. Students may sign up for a video chat with the instructor. Students have access to the online classroom and all coursework for 6-months following the date of registration.

Music Theory Online for Adults – Basics (ages 16+)

Classes (online and in person)

Basic Rhythms and Meter

  • Basic note values (quarter, half, whole, dotted half)
  • Counting
  • Simple time signatures

The Staff and Clefs

  • Treble and bass clef
  • Identifying notes on the staff

The Keyboard, Grand Staff, and Steps

  • Identifying notes on the keyboard
  • The grand staff
  • Steps on the keyboard and staff

More Rhythm and Meter

  • Additional note values (eighth, sixteenth)
  • Rest values
  • Dotted rhythms
  • Compound time signatures

Sharps and Flats, Half Steps and Whole Steps

  • Identifying sharps and flats on the keyboard/staff
  • Identifying whole steps and half steps on the keyboard/staff

The Major Scale

  • The major tetrachord
  • Writing major scales using whole steps and half steps
  • Major scale concepts

Minor Scales

  • Writing minor scales using whole steps and half steps
  • Relative minor

Key Signatures

  • The order of sharps and flats
  • The circle of fifths
  • Identifying major and minor key signatures
Music Theory Online for Adults – Intermediate (ages 16+)

Classes (online and in person)

Major and Minor Scales

  • Major scales
  • Major scales concepts
  • Relative and parallel minor
  • Natural, harmonic and melodic minor

Key Signatures

  • The order of sharps and flats
  • The circle of fifths
  • Identifying key signatures

Intervals I

  • Interval size
  • Perfect and major interval qualities

Intervals II

  • Minor, diminished, and augmented interval qualities
  • Hearing intervals

Rhythm and Meter

  • Simple and compound meter
  • Triplets
  • Syncopation

Triads

  • Major, minor, augmented, and diminished triads
  • Lead sheet notation
  • Hearing triads

Triad Inversion

  • Inversion of triads
  • Figured bass symbols

Harmony Basics

  • Roman numerals and functional chords
  • The tonic, subdominant, and dominant triads
  • The dominant seventh and inversions
  • Harmonizing a melody with chords
Music Theory Online for Adults – Advanced (ages 16+)

Classes (online and in person)

Triads and Seventh Chords

  • Triads and their inversions
  • Lead sheet symbols
  • Figured Bass
  • Seventh chords and their inversions
  • Hearing triad and seventh chords

Roman Numerals and Functional Chords

  • Using Roman numerals to identify functional chords
  • Combing Roman numerals with figured bass

Musical Texture, SATB Texture

  • Types of musical texture
  • Chord voicing in SATB texture
  • Close and open position chords

Root-Position Voice-Leading

  • Harmonic progression
  • General voice-leading rules
  • Types of contrapuntal motion
  • Methodology for root position part-writing

Tonic and Dominant, Cadences

  • Part writing with the tonic and dominant
  • The dominant seventh
  • Types of cadences
  • Hearing cadences

The Subdominant, Supertonic, and Submediant, Melody Harmonization

  • Use of the subdominant and supertonic
  • Predominant function
  • Use of the submediant
  • Melody harmonization
  • Harmonic dictation with root-position triads

First-Inversion Triads

  • Part-writing with first-inversion triads
  • Harmonic dictation with first-inversion triads

Second-Inversion Triads

  • Part-writing with second-inversion triads
  • Harmonic dictation with second-inversion triads

Visit Music Theory for more information and to register for an online placement test.

Questions? Please contact Dr. Evan Meier, Music Theory and Composition Chair, at emeier@levinemusic.org.

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