Need help with excercises correction (Walter Pistons Harmony)

Hello everyone!

I started studying composition and I'm using the Walter Piston's Harmony book. As I am self teaching, I need someone to correct my exercises. 

Is there a specific section on this forum where I can post them for correction? If not, is there any other forum or teacher or other source where I can get someone to correct them?

Thank you!

Hi Matheus,

That's a good question. I am not sure about this topic, but I can at least share my ideas.
If you are doing exercises not in the form of complete compositions, I would not use the Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback.
Maybe the Composers' Headquarters or the Advice and Techniques sections, of which the latter seems the most obvious option, are more suitable for your excersises.

If you do write complete compositions for your harmony exercises you can probably use the Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback section, because we can then also give you feedback on the music overall and listen to it.

Hope this helps a bit!

Maarten

What exactly do you mean?
If you're talking about pieces you write, there's nothing inherently wrong with a piece, thus nothing to correct. People here offer ideas and things for you to think about but typically nothing is wrong (unless there's a transposition error, tempo error, functional error, etc.). Those can be uploaded to the Upload Compositions forum.
If you're talking about exercises that the book provides for you to complete, Advice and Techniques is probably your best bet. Best not to spam the forum though. 

I've got that book too.  Some of the exercises are things that have definite correct answers:  Circle all the 1st inversion chords in the provided example.  Circle the cadence.  What type of cadence is it?  Some of them are more subjective and have more than one right answer:  Using the given soprano line, create three lower parts that follow the rules of voice leading.  

Matheus, you might be able to purchase a teacher's edition of the book, which would have correct answers to the exercises that have definite correct answers.  

You may also be able to find some free online music theory tests which will have similar exercises and give you immediate feedback on your answers, so you can be sure you are understanding the concepts correctly.  

Purchasing a second music theory text by a different author may also be helpful, so you can hear the same basic concepts explained in slightly different ways.  Sometimes that can reveal any misconceptions you had about the material.  

More and more colleges are starting to create online courses that are inexpensive (at least compared to going to university full-time), and open to students anywhere in the world.  There are generally graded homework exercises that you complete online and receive the correct answers to after you finish, so you can tell if you are understanding the material.  That would be another avenue you could explore.  

Keep looking for explanations in as many different places as possible.  You will start to have a better sense of the whole.  But I'd agree that asking for homework correction every day here will make people tired very quickly.  And might get us in trouble if a student in an official class for a grade at some university, using the same text, discovers our helpful set of correct answers and stops doing their own work.  Try to find answers on your own, and then ask specific questions here if you are really doubting your understanding and feel stuck.  

23 hours ago, Maarten Bauer said:

Hi Matheus,

That's a good question. I am not sure about this topic, but I can at least share my ideas.
If you are doing exercises not in the form of complete compositions, I would not use the Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback.
Maybe the Composers' Headquarters or the Advice and Techniques sections, of which the latter seems the most obvious option, are more suitable for your excersises.

If you do write complete compositions for your harmony exercises you can probably use the Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback section, because we can then also give you feedback on the music overall and listen to it.

Hope this helps a bit!

Maarten

 

Thank you Maaten. In fact, I´ve just begun to study harmony, so I'm not writing compositions yet!

22 hours ago, Monarcheon said:

What exactly do you mean?
If you're talking about pieces you write, there's nothing inherently wrong with a piece, thus nothing to correct. People here offer ideas and things for you to think about but typically nothing is wrong (unless there's a transposition error, tempo error, functional error, etc.). Those can be uploaded to the Upload Compositions forum.
If you're talking about exercises that the book provides for you to complete, Advice and Techniques is probably your best bet. Best not to spam the forum though. 

 

Yes, I am talking about exercises from the book. I guess I will just post specific questions, them.

22 hours ago, pateceramics said:

I've got that book too.  Some of the exercises are things that have definite correct answers:  Circle all the 1st inversion chords in the provided example.  Circle the cadence.  What type of cadence is it?  Some of them are more subjective and have more than one right answer:  Using the given soprano line, create three lower parts that follow the rules of voice leading.  

Matheus, you might be able to purchase a teacher's edition of the book, which would have correct answers to the exercises that have definite correct answers.  

 

Wow! I Didn't know that there was a teacher version of the book! I'll try to find it. Thanks!

22 hours ago, pateceramics said:

You may also be able to find some free online music theory tests which will have similar exercises and give you immediate feedback on your answers, so you can be sure you are understanding the concepts correctly.  

Purchasing a second music theory text by a different author may also be helpful, so you can hear the same basic concepts explained in slightly different ways.  Sometimes that can reveal any misconceptions you had about the material.  

More and more colleges are starting to create online courses that are inexpensive (at least compared to going to university full-time), and open to students anywhere in the world.  There are generally graded homework exercises that you complete online and receive the correct answers to after you finish, so you can tell if you are understanding the material.  That would be another avenue you could explore. 

I think that online courses/exercises are of great help! But I need to check if everything is right. That's my biggest problem now. 

I'll look for some of them! Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the help guys! My progress is so slow that everything is getting so frustrated! I'll follow your tips and try to gather as much information as possible from this forum!

Thank you again!

Matt