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A complete AP Music Theory path integrating notation, sight singing, aural dictation, scales, intervals, chords, harmonic function, voice leading, secondary function, modes, and form.

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AP Music Theory curriculum

A complete AP Music Theory path integrating notation, sight singing, aural dictation, scales, intervals, chords, harmonic function, voice leading, secondary function, modes, and form.

Pacing
8 units, 24-34 weeks self-paced
Units
8 unit sequence
Practice
640 checked answers
Support
Self-paced or tutor-guided
Outcomes
  • Identify and notate musical elements from scores and aural examples.
  • Write melodies and four-part harmony using common-practice voice-leading conventions.
  • Sight sing, take dictation, analyze form, and correct errors with an aural and written practice log.

Unit sequence

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  1. 01

    Music fundamentals I

    • Use pitch notation, major scales, key signatures, rhythm, meter, tempo, dynamics, and expressive markings.
    • Connect written symbols to performed sound.

    Practice: Notate and perform short major-key rhythm and pitch examples, then correct them from a recording.

  2. 02

    Music fundamentals II

    • Use minor scales and keys, intervals, melody, timbre, texture, syncopation, and cross-rhythm.
    • Recognize features aurally and visually.

    Practice: Complete interval and minor-key drills plus a short melodic dictation and sight-singing recording.

  3. 03

    Music fundamentals III

    • Spell and identify diatonic triads, seventh chords, qualities, and inversions.
    • Hear chord quality and bass position.

    Practice: Analyze and aurally identify a chord set, then realize each chord in a named key.

  4. 04

    Harmony and voice leading I

    • Use chord function, cadences, phrase structure, SATB spacing, doubling, and seventh-chord voice leading.
    • Avoid parallels and unresolved tendency tones.

    Practice: Realize a figured-bass or Roman-numeral progression and annotate every voice-leading decision.

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