User:Brylie/Music Theory/to-do

Taken from instructor's comments in the Collaborative Lesson planning forums here and here.
 * I plan to include a diagram, which I am currently designing, that will encompass the foundations of tonal music composition and that can be used as a quick reference for improvisation, composition, and memorization. Additional lessons will include additional triads, sevenths, extended, and 'exotic chords', aleatoric composition, and the overtone series.
 * The realm of music theory also provides many opportunities for metaphoric and mnemonic realization. Mnemonics and patterns can help to reduce the amount of rote memorization a student must endure. Metaphors include the solar system (chord function and compositional probability), moon phases (chord leading/resolution), ocean surf (occlusion, chromaticism, musical movements, orchestral composition), Escher's stairs (the octave and compound intervals), lightwaves (synesthesia and visual recognition), and constellations (stringed instrument chord and scale forms at various resolutions, e.g. triad, seventh, pentatonic, heptatonic.)
 * I would like to augment the, currently eight, lessons with additional concepts and supplement each concept with generative and constructive practice challenges. I would also like to share the learning resource(s) with my near peers who are interested in exploring music theory.

Suggestions from Others

 * Brylie: I like your pragmatic approach to your lesson planning. But, I am confused as to the approach you will be using to teach each activity in your lesson plan. It would help other teachers to have that knowledge when evaluating your lesson plan. If my suggestion is confusing please let me know. Thanks, Dr. King
 * Perhaps quite idiosyncratic but I found it all very useful from the "mnemonic" point of view you mentioned. I'm not a sight reader, but I was able to learn a lot of chords by thinking about the associated color patterns. It would be interesting to expand this sometime to deal with the various more advanced topics in music theory your lesson plan talks about... from, Joe Cornelli, Wikiversity User: Arided
 * Thanks for posting your fascinating plan about Music Theory. I really look forward to seeing how you develop the resource. Can you include what you're writing here about "metaphoric and mnemonic realization" into the plan? from, Charles Jeffrey Danoff, Wikiversity User: Charles Jeffrey Danoff