MUS74 (Keyboard Skills 1) | Keyboard Exercises | Queens College | Summer 2025
Technical exercises for a basic keyboard class: five-finger patterns, one-octave scales, and I-V-I progressions in various right hand positions. Scales and I-V-I […]
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MUS171 (Sight Singing and Dictation 1) | Solfege Warm Ups | Queens College | Fall 2025
Various scale-based warm ups to improve solfege, in major and minor. Instructor: Vlad Praskurnin Course: MUS171 (Sight Singing and Dictation 1) This […]
Introduction to Music (MUS 1) | Text Painting Assignment | Queens College | Spring 2025
This assignment is part of a unit on early music and pairs with a discussion of text painting in madrigals. “As Vestas […]
The World of Music | Soundscape Exercise | Hunter College | Fall 2024
Class Exercise/Activity – Soundscape Instructor: Maurice Restrepo Course: The World of Music
Keyboard Skills 1 (MUS74) | Pop Progressions and Melody Improvisation | Queens College | Fall 2024 and Summer 2025
Two activities, on pop progressions and melody improvisation on a given chord progression. Both can fill up 1-2 classes, later in the […]
A Thousand Years of Listening MUSHL 101 | Listening Log Assignment | Hunter College | Spring 2022
This is a listening log assignment I created to encourage students to listen to music and continue writing about it throughout the […]
Ear Training | Interval, Triad, and 7th Chord Song | Hunter College | 2024 Fall
Nice warm up / drill for any music theory / aural class Instructor: Alice Xue Course: Any Ear Training /Aural Skills/Music Fundamentals […]
Music Theory Fundamentals (MUSTH 101) | Phone Number Compositions | Hunter College | Spring 2024
Phone Number Composition is an in-class activity designed to have students apply the concept of intervals. Students use their phone numbers to […]
Music: Its Language, History, and Culture | Rhythm and Meter Exercise | Brooklyn College | Spring 2023
Listening in-class exercise to help students understand the difference between meter and rhythm. Instructor: Ana Beatriz Mujica Course: Music: its language, history, […]
Theory III: Modern and Contemporary Studies | Rite of Spring Worksheet | Brooklyn College | Spring 2024
An in-class analysis worksheet of the opening section of the Rite of Spring. Contains questions about scales/modes, meter, planing, “metric modulation,” and […]
