Timed Quizzes Video Reassessment
If you have attempted but not passed one of the post-midterm quizzes, you may make videos in which you explain the not-yet-passed concepts. A satisfactory video will earn a passing grade in all quizzes covered by that concept.
Check with your teacher for due dates.
Instructions
- Read the prompt (on the following page) for the topic not yet passed.
- Make a video of yourself (not a slideshow, etc) explaining the topic verbally.
- You must address all the questions posed in the prompt.
- You must fit your video into the given time restrictions.
- It’s okay to edit your video to make it fit in the time restriction; just make sure you still include all the necessary information.
- Your explanation should be rehearsed and clear, with visual and audio demonstrations where appropriate (play your instrument or sing, if it helps!).
- Upload your video to Youtube.
- Submit your video.
Check with your teacher for due dates.
#1: Notation
There is no video reassessment option for #1 quizzes.
#2: Rhythm and Meter
Time: 4 minutes
- Explain duple/triple/quadruple meters.
- Explain simple/compound meters.
- Explain conventions for beams and ties.
- Re-notate a rhythm (about eight quarter notes long) in three different meters, including one compound meter.
- Perform each version of your re-notated rhythm on an instrument, demonstrating how the rhythm is performed differently in each of your chosen meters.
#3 and #4: Key Signatures and Scales
Time: 5 minutes
- What the circle of fifths is.
- How to use the circle of fifths to determine key signatures.
- Relative and parallel keys.
- Why the sharps in key signatures are ordered F–C–G–D–A–E–B, and why are the flats are the reverse of this.
- Why there are three different kinds of minor scales, but pieces are never called Sonata in D Harmonic Minor (for example).
#5: Intervals
Time: 2 minutes
- Explain interval names (size and quality).
- Explain inversions of intervals.
- Explain enharmonically equivalent intervals.
- Explain compound intervals.
- Use an example of each quality type.
- Use an instrument to play these examples as you explain them.
#6: Playing Quiz 1
There is no video reassessment option for playing quizzes.
#7: Chords
Time: 2 minutes
- Explain the four triad qualities and five seventh chord qualities in terms of their interval content and/or common scale- degree associations
- Use an example of each quality type, and make sure that at least one example has a natural root, at least one has a sharp root, and at least one has a flat root.
- Use an instrument to play these examples as you explain them.
#8: Roman numerals
Time: 2 minutes
- Explain what aspects of a chord does a Roman numeral signifies.
- Explain what figures signify.
- Explain how you determine the Roman numeral and figures of a particular chord.
- Give at least four examples, played at an instrument. Be sure to have a mixture of chord qualities, roots, inversions, and major/minor keys in your examples.
#9: Playing Quiz 2
There is no video reassessment option for playing quizzes.