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RCM ARCT Harmony and Counterpoint

YouTube Links for Text and Exercise Music Excerpts

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Enhance your teaching with this compilation of YouTube links for the music excerpts from each unit of the ARCT Celebrate Theory book. Included are excerpts for explanatory text, aural and harmonic analysis, and applicable exercises. Links are time-stamped as required to the beginning of each excerpt. Most videos include the score. 

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The complete list of timestamped YouTube playlist links for this level, grouped by unit, is available in a PDF document.

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If any YouTube links are no longer valid or in case of omissions/errors, please drop me a line at musictheorymontreal@gmail.com so that I can find an alternative and update the list.

 

A link for each full playlist is located below the unit.  If playing the videos directly from the YouTube playlist, the timestamps are indicated in the unit’s playlist description.

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Unit 2

CTdim7 Chords

TEXT

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  1. Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a: Waltz of the Flowers

  2. Sousa, Semper Fidelis

  3. Schumann, Abegg Variations, op. 1: Variation II

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AURAL ANALYSIS

 

  1. Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma! "Oh What a Beautiful Morning!"

 

 

HARMONIC ANALYSIS

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  1. Schumann, Papillons, op. 2, no. 11

  2. Mozart, Sonata, K 545: II

  3. Mozart, Sonata, K 333: III

  4. Schumann, C., Variations de concert, op. 8: Variation II

  5. Schubert, Moment musical, D 780, no. 6

  6. Schumann, Kleine studie, op. 68, no. 14

  7. Schumann, Ich grolle nicht, op. 48, no. 7

  8. Mendelssohn, Rondo capriccioso, op. 14

  9. Schubert, Valse sentimentale, op. 50, D 779, no. 12

  10. Joplin, The Entertainer

  11. Liszt, Les préludes, S 97

  12. Schubert, Valse sentimentale, op. 50, D 779, no. 15

  13. Chopin, Valse brillante, op. 34, no. 1

  14. Schubert, Frülingssehnsucht, D 957

  15. Rossini (arr. Liszt), William Tell Overture

The Royal Conservatory Level 10 Harmony and Counterpoint Unit 2 Playlist

Unit 3

The â™­II6 Chord

TEXT

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  1. ​Beethoven, Sonata, op. 27, no. 2: I

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AURAL ANALYSIS

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  1. Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, "Sally’s Song"

  2. Bock & Harnick, Fiddler on the Roof, Act 1: Opening

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HARMONIC ANALYSIS

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  1. Chopin, Étude, op. 25, no. 4

  2. Corelli, Violin Sonata, op. 5, no. 7: III

  3. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 27, no. 2: III

  4. Schumann, Piano Concerto, op. 54: I

  5. Smetana, Die Sehnsucht, op. 1, no. 4

  6. Chopin, Prelude, op. 28, no. 20

  7. Weber, Der Freischütz, op. 77

  8. Beethoven, Bagatelle, op. 119, no. 9

  9. Chopin, Prelude, op. 28, no. 6

  10. Paganini, Caprice, op. 1, no. 4

  11. Schubert, Erlkönig, op. 1, D 328

  12. Schubert, Der Müller und der Bach, op. 25, D 795, no. 19

  13. Mozart, Violin Sonata, K 377: II

  14. Chopin, Mazurka, op. 33, no. 4

  15. Chopin, Ballade No. 1, op. 23

  16. Haydn, String Quartet, Hob. III:61: I

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Unit 5

Augmented 6th Chords

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  1. Beethoven (arr. Liszt), Symphony No. 5, op. 67: I

  2. Pergolesi, Stabat mater: “Quis est homo”

  3. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: III

  4. Schubert, Die Liebe, D 210 (“Klärchens Lied”)

  5. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 78: II

  6. Schumann, Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, op. 48, no. 12

  7. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 57: II

  8. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 14, no. 1: I

  9. Beethoven, Thirty-two Variations, WoO 80: Theme

  10. Chopin, Valse brillante, op. 34, no. 2

  11. Haydn, Sonata, Hob. XVI:49: I

  12. Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to act 1

  13. Mozart, Don Giovanni, K 527: Overture

  14. Mozart, Sonata, K 332: I

  15. Chopin, Ballade No. 3, op. 47

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AURAL ANALYSIS

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  1. Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice: “Che farò senza Euridice”

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HARMONIC ANALYSIS

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  1. Chopin, Polonaise, op. 53

  2. Chopin, Étude, op. 10, no. 3

  3. Haydn, Sonata, Hob. XVI:20: III

  4. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 27, no. 2: III

  5. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 109: III

  6. Grieg, Album Leaf, op. 12, no. 7

  7. Mozart, Sonata, K 280: II

  8. Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Paganini, op. 35, Book 1: Theme

  9. Grieg, Ballade, op. 24

  10. Bach, Fugue, BWV 861

  11. Schubert, Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe, D 955

  12. Joplin, The Chrysanthemum

  13. Haydn, Sonata, Hob. XVI:52: I

  14. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 10, no. 1: III

  15. Schubert, Sonata, D 894: III

  16. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 10, no. 2: I

  17. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 10, no. 2: I

  18. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: III

  19. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: III

  20. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: III

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Unit 6

Chromatic Modulation

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  1. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 14, no. 1: I

  2. Bach, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903

  3. Haydn, Sonata, Hob. XVI:8: III

  4. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 81a: I

  5. Schubert, Symphony No. 9, D 944: I

  6. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: I

  7. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 13: II

  8. Beethoven (arr Liszt), Symphony No. 5, op. 67: II

  9. Bach, Prelude, BWV 998

  10. Schubert, Der Musensohn, op. 92, D 764, no. 1   *

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AURAL ANALYSIS

  1. Schubert, Die Winterreise, op. 89 “Die Post"

 

 

HARMONIC ANALYSIS

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  1. Schubert, Moment musical, D 780, no. 6

  2. Schubert, Sonata, D 960: I

  3. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 2, no. 2: IV

  4. Chopin, Prelude, op. 18, no. 6

  5. Schubert, Wiener Damen-Ländler, D 734, no. 8

  6. Beethoven, Sonata, op. 81a: I

  7. Liszt, Consolation, S 172, no. 1

  8. Schubert, Der Neugierige, op. 25, D 795, no. 6 *

  9. Loewe, Erlkönig, op. 1, no. 3

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* YouTube score in key of Ab major.

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Unit 7

Figured Bass Realization

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  1. Handel, Recorder Sonata, HWV 369: I

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AURAL ANALYSIS

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  1. Mozart, Menuet in F Major, K 2

 

 

HARMONIC ANALYSIS

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  1. Telemann, Viola da Gamba Sonata, TWV 41:e5: I

  2. Handel, Violin Sonata, HWV 371: I

  3. Handel, Recorder Sonata, HWV 369: I

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EXERCISES

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  1. Telemann, Violin Sonata, TWV 41:g3: I **

  2. Telemann, Violin Sonata, TWV 41:A3: I **

  3. Handel, Violin Sonata, HWV 371: III

  4. Handel, Recorder Sonata, HWV 360: I

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** Book score is an outline; actual recording is florid. See attached full score pdfs below.

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Telemann, Violin Sonata, TWV 41:g3: I

Telemann, Violin Sonata, TWV 41: A3: I

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Unit 9

Counterpoint

There are no YouTube links for this Unit.

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