Suggested Learning Resources

1) YFIO

2) Video Lesson: YouTube MusicTheoryGuy Channel http://youtu.be/22s7Q6n87tU

3) Online Reading: Northern.edu http://www3.northern.edu/wieland/theory/keys/mi_sigs.htm

4) Interactive Lesson: MusicTheory.net Identify Signatures (change settings to minor mode) http://www.musictheory.net/exercises/keysig

Music Theory QuickThink: 

-          Key signatures appear at the start of a musical line, found after the clef and before the time signature.

-          The order of sharps and flats in a key signature are always the same

-          Key signatures do not contain sharps and flats at the same time

-          Key signatures do not contain double sharps or double flats

-          For minor Key Signatures

• o   No Sharps or Flats = a minor
• o   One Sharp = e minor
• o   Two Sharps = b minor
• o   Three Sharps = f# minor
• o   Four Sharps = c# minor
• o   Five Sharps = g# minor
• o   Six Sharps = d# minor
• o   Seven Sharps = a# minor
• o   One Flat = d minor
• o   Two Flats = g minor
• o   Three Flats = c minor
• o   Four Flats = f minor
• o   Five Flats = bb minor
• o   Six Flats = eb minor
• o   Seven Flats = ab minor

CONSTRUCTING A CIRLCE OF 5THS CHART IS A STANDARD WAY OF VISUALLY ORGANIZING THE KEY SIGNATURES

See instructions for incorporating minor key signatures into the circle of 5ths with Objective 2.3

Objective 2.2: Examples in Music: YouTube

http://youtu.be/vZXv9DAFXDU?t=1m

Objective 2.2: Identify and notate minor key signatures on staves of treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs