{"id":5161,"date":"2022-06-08T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5161"},"modified":"2024-10-19T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T16:28:46","slug":"karim-al-zand-teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5161","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In-class harmoniola<\/strong> [canon] on the motto for XFL football’s New York Guardians (solution<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n

I<\/span> teach in the combined composition and theory departments at the Shepherd School of Music<\/a>. The courses I offer include undergraduate and graduate private composition studio lessons, a range of curricular classes in music theory, ear training and solf\u00e8ge, and a variety of upper level special topics courses and seminars. In all of my classes, whether composition-based or not, I emphasize an experiential \u201clearn by doing\u201d philosophy and cultivate a creative, music-writing-based approach. Below, some examples of materials from various classes, roughly organized by topic. Feel free to incorporate anything you find useful, with attribution.<\/p>\n

Voice-Leading\/Chorales<\/h4>\n

Rules: what are they good for?<\/a>
\nA few common parallel \u201cdanger zones\u201d<\/a>
\nCSI (Chorale Setting Investigation): Leipzig<\/a>
\nMy first chorale using triads in all inversions<\/a>
\nDancing with the Stars: Minuet Edition<\/a><\/p>\n

Harmony\/Form<\/h4>\n

The six-four song<\/a>
\nTwo tables of scale degrees with their common Roman numeral harmonies<\/a>
\nIdiomatic harmonic vocabulary using stepwise soprano fragments<\/a>
\nSchubert and Shooburt: compare and contrast<\/a>
\nThe amazing chromatic adventures of Mr. Diminished Seventh Chord<\/a>
\nA basic idea, put through its paces<\/a><\/p>\n

Composition\/Orchestration<\/h4>\n

Some basic notation guidelines<\/a>
\nPoetic formal analysis for composers: a case study<\/a>
\nA typology for melodic doubling in orchestration<\/a>
\nMozart early Symphonies<\/i>: score study and analysis worksheet<\/a>
\nOne-Minute study pieces<\/a><\/p>\n

Ear Training\/Aural Skills\/Solf\u00e8ge\/Dictation<\/h4>\n

8ve scale harmonizations for modal mutation<\/a>
\nSolf\u00e8ge\/Scale Degree playing cards<\/a>
\nEndless progressions in major and minor<\/a>
\nSolfege Sudoku<\/a>
\nA chromatic drill for triad singing\u2014playing\u2014identification<\/a>
\nTuneSearch<\/a><\/p>\n

Jazz<\/h4>\n

A network of progressions in the Blues, \u201cRhythms Changes,\u201d etc.<\/a>
\nThe very basics of jazz form<\/a>
\nJazz harmonic elaboration: a few starting principles<\/a>
\nThree progressive re-harms of O Tannenbaum<\/i><\/a>
\nThree melodic renditions of I Can’t Give You Anything But Love<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

18th century music topics<\/h4>\n

Various figural preludes on a single figured bass<\/a>
\nSome possible embellishments for the Mozart, Rondo<\/i>, K. 281<\/a>
\nA possible ornamentation of the Bach, Sarabande<\/i>, BWV 809<\/a>
\nSome guiding principles for Eing\u00e4nge<\/i><\/a>
\nHow to linearly approach\/quit the six-four chord<\/a>
\nSample choose-your-own-adventure cadenza for Mozart, Violin Concerto<\/i>, K. 207, I<\/a>
\nSample vocal cadenzas for Handel, Giulio Cesare, Se piet\u00e0 di me non senti<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Tonal\/Bach-Style Counterpoint<\/h4>\n

Beware these common contrapuntal maladies<\/a>
\nBaroque treble cadential formulas<\/a>
\nTrue facts about the subjects of Bach’s Two-Part Inventions<\/i><\/a>
\nTwo-Part Invention subject exposition decision tree<\/a>
\nTwo common fugue subject types<\/a>
\nWell Tempered Clavier<\/i> exposition data set<\/a>
\nA 3-voice fugue structural blueprint<\/a>
\nIn-class harmoniola<\/i> [canon] on the motto for XFL football’s New York Guardians<\/i><\/a>
\n(the original is shown in the picture<\/a> above; here is the official team introduction<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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