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 | Syllabus | Queens College | Fall 2025
Syllabus for Sight Singing and Dictation 1 at Queens College Instructor: Vlad Praskurnin Course: MUS171 This assignment contains notated music and requires […]
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 […]
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 […]
Music Theory Fundamentals | Rhythm and Meter Lesson Plans | Hunter College | Spring 2022
Lessons plans for the entirety of Days #4–7, which introduce concepts and skills related to notating and hearing rhythm and meter in […]
Music Theory Fundamentals | Keys Assignments | Hunter College | Spring 2022
Two assignments geared towards establishing and practicing the basics of keys and key signatures using staff music notation in the tradition of […]
Music Theory Fundamentals | Scales Assignments | Hunter College |Spring 2022
Two assignments geared at practice concepts and skills related to scales. First and second assignment are about major and minor scales, respectively. […]
Music Theory Fundamentals | Rhythm Assignments | Hunter College | Spring 2022
Four homework assignments given in sequence to practice the basics of rhythmic notation and listening in the tradition of Western Art Music. […]
Music Theory Fundamentals | Note Naming Assignments | Hunter College | Spring 2022
Two homework assignments given in sequence to practice note naming, staff notation, and treble and bass clef in the tradition of Western […]
Introduction to Music | Dance Notation Group Activity | Queens College | Fall 2019
A small group activity in which students interpret an example of Renaissance dance notation: “The Washerwoman’s Branle,” taken from Thoinot Arbeau’s 1589 […]
