MTEL Music study plan

Identify and notate all major and minor key signatures, including relative and parallel relationships, from memory with 90% accuracy.

Construct all fifteen major scales and their three minor forms (natural, harmonic, melodic) ascending and descending in treble and bass clef.

Spell and resolve all diatonic intervals from unison through octave, distinguishing major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished qualities.

Build all four triad qualities and their inversions on every scale degree, labeling figured bass symbols correctly.

Analyze four-part chorale excerpts by labeling Roman numerals, inversions, and nonchord tones (passing, neighbor, suspension, anticipation).

Apply the standard voice-leading rules for doubled and omitted chord tones in root-position and inverted triads and seventh chords.

Compose a 16-measure four-voice progression in a major key that uses tonic, subdominant, dominant, and one applied (secondary dominant) chord with correct resolution.

Identify common cadence types (authentic, half, plagal, deceptive) in notated examples and explain the harmonic function of each.

Diagram small and large binary, rounded binary, and simple ternary forms using letter labels and measure numbers from a provided score excerpt.

Identify the components of sonata form (exposition, development, recapitulation, coda) and locate the primary and secondary themes in a short classical movement excerpt.

Map phrase structure, including antecedent-consequent periods and motivic development, in two short instrumental works.

Distinguish theme-and-variation and rondo structures and explain how each organizes repetition and contrast.

Sequence the major style periods from Medieval through Contemporary on a timeline, placing at least four representative composers and one characteristic genre in each period.

Compare the sacred and secular genres of the Medieval and Renaissance eras (chant, mass, motet, madrigal) by texture and function.

Explain the development of functional harmony and the rise of instrumental genres (concerto, sonata, symphony) from the Baroque through the Classical era.

Identify by ear and by score excerpt at least eight works from the Baroque and Classical eras and justify each attribution with two stylistic features.

Describe the harmonic and expressive innovations of Romantic-era composers and link them to at least three representative genres (art song, character piece, program symphony).

Trace the major developments of twentieth-century music, including impressionism, neoclassicism, serialism, and American popular and jazz idioms.

Summarize the contributions of at least six non-Western or underrepresented traditions and their influence on Western art music.

Explain the historical and cultural context that shaped at least four works from different eras, connecting each to its social or political setting.

Conduct or cue a short ensemble excerpt in at least two contrasting meters, demonstrating clear preparatory beats, subdivision patterns, and cutoffs.

Perform a prepared solo or ensemble excerpt on the primary instrument or voice with correct intonation, phrasing, and stylistic articulation.

Demonstrate sight-reading of a short unfamiliar passage at a steady tempo with fewer than three rhythmic or pitch errors.

Explain and demonstrate the fundamentals of vocal or instrumental technique, including posture, breath support, embouchure or bow control, and tone production.

Rehearse a small ensemble or section using a structured rehearsal plan that states objectives, sequencing, and closure in writing.

Diagnose and correct at least three common ensemble problems (balance, blend, intonation, rhythmic precision) using specific rehearsal techniques.

Design a lesson sequence for a beginning ensemble that applies the principles of warm-up, skill development, and repertoire rehearsal.

Adapt a performance activity for students with diverse learning needs, describing at least two specific modifications.

Compare major pedagogical approaches (Kodaly, Orff, Dalcroze, Gordon) and select the approach best suited to a stated classroom scenario, justifying the choice.

Build an assessment plan that measures performance, responding, and creating using at least three distinct assessment formats.

Synthesize theory, history, performance, and pedagogy by writing a unit overview that integrates all four domains across five lessons.

Complete a timed full-length practice test and review every missed item by domain, identifying patterns in the errors.