Originally Posted by The Nightfly

Steve, here is my intended course for you. Please read through and tell me if there is anything that you are already familiar with. Or if there is anything specific that you want to add. This is just an overview, there might be things that I will add later on. These are just what came to my mind right now.

Lesson Overview

Scale formation in 20th Century Music
-Five-note scales- Pentatonics, yup
-Six-note scales- Whole tone, augmented
-Seven-note scales- of course, but some national/ethnic scales i'm not very familiar with
-eight-note scales- i don't think so, i might if you name me
-other possibilities- tone rows
etc..

Exercise 1: Compose melody with given scales

Chords
-Conventional triads- know em
-triads with added notes- know em
-quartal and quintal chords- know, but not as experienced
-whole-tone chords- never heard the term, but i'm assuming they're chords derived from the whole tone scale
-polychords- know em, but not as experienced
etc..

Exercise 2: Compose chord progressions

Melody and voice leading

-Tonal melody
-New stylistic features of 20th century music- that's general haha

Composition: From here on we start to write a composition

Harmonic Progressions

-New approaches to harmonic progressions- general again (I know it's supposed to be general too)
-polytonality- know, not as experienced
-atonality- know and enjoy, but not as experienced (as in writing i've meant the term)
-pandiatonicism- if my memory is clear, means derived from diatonic mode but lacks a tonic center right?

Rhythm

-Syncopation- yea
-Changing time signatures- familiar
-nontraditional time signatures- familiar
-polymeter- multiple tempos at same time right? ives or elliott carter first started using that, metric modulation and all?
-ametric music- i'll guess that is meterless music
etc..

note: you don't need to do anything right now. I will start the lessons tomorrow and give you an assignment.