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Creating a harmonic accompaniment

“Ich kann zu einer Melodie eine harmonische Begleitung erfinden und über eine Harmoniefolge improvisieren.”

Strand: Singing, playing and inventing
Grade band: Grade 9/10
Source: Kerncurriculum Hessen, Sekundarstufe I - Gymnasium, Musik (Hessisches Kultusministerium), mit Lehrplan Musik G9 Hessen

The chain

What you need before and what comes after, step by step.

Builds on · 30

Step 1

Focused listening · strand Listening to music and describing it

Step 2

Musical parameters · strand Listening to music and describing it
Hearing major and minor · strand Pitch, scales and harmony

Step 3

Note duration · strand Rhythm, metre and tempo
Fast and slow tempo · strand Rhythm, metre and tempo
High and low notes · strand Pitch, scales and harmony

Step 4

Steady beat · strand Rhythm, metre and tempo
Piano keyboard · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Repeated notes, steps and leaps · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Staff and treble clef · strand Notation and signs
Note values · strand Notation and signs

Step 5

Strong and weak beats · strand Rhythm, metre and tempo
Counting semitones · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Naming intervals · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Note names · strand Notation and signs
Clapping back rhythms

Step 6

Time signatures · strand Rhythm, metre and tempo
Tones and semitones · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Triad · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Accidentals · strand Notation and signs

Step 7

Major scale · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Note values in a bar · strand Notation and signs

Step 8

Structure of the minor scale · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Key signatures · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Reading rhythms · strand Notation and signs

Step 9

Major and minor triads · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Reading melodies · strand Notation and signs

Step 10

Tonic, subdominant, dominant · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Chord symbols in a lead sheet · strand Notation and signs directly

Step 11

Cadence · strand Pitch, scales and harmony directly

This building block · Step 12

Creating a harmonic accompaniment

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Placement	Grade	In the curriculum	Status
Grade band	9/10	holds where no curriculum is chosen or captured	kept in the catalog
Other states (16)	–	–	not captured yet

Other states, not captured yet: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

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