Week 6 — Readings & Resources · Intervals I

Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 6 of 16 (Week 6) · two sessions per week
Your primary reading is the Week 6 chapter (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer.

How to use this page

Everything here is a link to an external resource — open it in your browser, the way you'd open any link a friend sent you. Nothing to buy, download, or sign into.

The load is light on purpose: six links, grouped by the unit's three big ideas. One item per group is plenty; all six is thorough. If a link disagrees with the course on a convention (a few sites let half-step counts name intervals on their own, or shrug at the G♯/A♭ distinction), the course convention in the Week 6 chapter wins — size from letters, quality from half steps, in that order, everywhere in this course.

① The two rulers: size and quality

Maps to the chapter's two rulers and two families sections, and Session 1's Segments 2–4.

• Intervals — Open Music Theory — the full system in one chapter: generic size, specific quality, the perfect and major/minor families, and inversion, with staff diagrams throughout. The closest outside match to how this course teaches it. (reading, ~15 min)
• Generic Intervals — musictheory.net — size alone, as an animated click-through: counting lines and spaces, both ends included, accidentals ignored. Do this one first if counting letters still feels wobbly. (interactive lesson, ~5 min)
• Specific Intervals — musictheory.net — the second ruler: half-step counts layered onto sizes to produce quality, with the perfect and major/minor ladders built step by step. (interactive lesson, ~7 min)

② Drill it until it's fast

Maps to the chapter's interval bank and spelling downward sections, and the studio speed round.

• Interval Identification trainer — musictheory.net — unlimited practice naming written intervals, with instant checking. Five minutes a day this week beats one long cram hour; the quiz and the studio both move at drill speed. (practice tool)
• Interval exercises — teoria.com — a second drill room with both directions covered: identify intervals and construct them above a given note. Useful the moment the musictheory.net trainer starts feeling comfortable. (practice tool)

③ Hooks: hang every interval on a song

Maps to the studio — the hook-bank card you'll build from songs you already carry.

• Interval Song Chart Generator — EarMaster — pick any interval, ascending or descending, and get a list of well-known songs that open with it. Raid it for your studio card: the best anchor is always a song you actually sing, and this page helps you find which gap each of your songs starts with. (reference tool)

Pick-one quick path (≈15 min total)

Short on time this week? You've read the chapter — then do exactly these two:

1. Click through Specific Intervals in group ① — it rehearses the exact two-ruler method the quiz tests.
2. Run ten rounds of the Interval Identification trainer in group ②.

Heads-up (links rot): these point to outside sites that occasionally move pages. If a link fails, tell Professor Hemsworth and lean on the chapter in the meantime — it covers everything the quiz covers.