Week 14 — Assignment (Adaptive) · "Twenty Fills"

Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 14 of 16 (Week 14) · two sessions per week
Objectives assessed: SLO 6 (embellish a two-voice frame that must stay correct) · SLO 7 (turn a described melodic move into the right name — the spine)
Assignment 14 · 100 points · Adaptive assignments group · Due: the end of Week 14
Format: adaptive — you work twenty problems with your own AI coach, which grades each answer against an embedded vetted key, teaches you through anything you miss, and lets you retry a fresh version to raise your score. You submit the coach's report (score on line 1) plus your chat's share link.

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Part 1 — Student Instructions (read this first)

What this is. Twenty problems in four blocks: name the fill from its entrance and exit, handle suspensions and their hyphen figures, defuse the minor-key trap, and finally embellish a real two-voice frame — one edit at a time — so that it still passes the voice-leading check. Five points each. A callback for the Week 1 alumni: week 1 was Twenty Addresses, week 12 was Twenty Landings — week 14 is Twenty Fills. Same course, one floor up again.

The frame you'll embellish in Block D, printed here so you can work on paper first:

KEY: F major    METER: 4/4    CLEF: grand
U: | A4/h Bb4/h | C5/h A4/h | G4/h G4/h | F4/w |
L: | F3/h G3/h | A3/h F3/h | C3/h C3/h | F3/w |

Four bars in F major, note against note: the upper voice arches A4–B♭4–C5 and settles home to F4; the lower voice walks F3–G3–A3 and returns through C3. Parallel tenths up the arch, a twelfth and then the final octave at the close — it passes every unit-13 check, and your job is to decorate it without changing that.

One honest note about format: a chatbot can't play audio, so the melodic moments arrive as words — which is a real musician skill too (fills get described in green rooms constantly: "step up into it, then fall off"). The by-ear version of this exact work is what the studio was. Words here, ears in the room — and do play each problem on your own instrument as you answer; that's free ear training.

How to run it (about 30–40 minutes):

1. Open your AI chatbot — any of the approved ones (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot); free versions are fine.
2. Copy everything in the box below and paste it as one single message.
3. Work each problem. Type pitches the course way (F#4, Bb3), the six labels as PT, NT, SUS, ANT, ET, APP, suspension figures with the hyphen (4-3, 7-6, 9-8), and inversion figures with slashes (6/4, 4/3).

Raise your score by learning. Miss one? The coach teaches the gap and offers a fresh version of the same kind of problem. Your best attempt counts, up to full marks. Retry as much as you like.

What to submit. When the coach prints the report — first line STUDENT'S SCORE: X/100 — copy the whole report and your conversation's share link, and submit both in Canvas by the end of Week 14.

Integrity note. Do your own thinking; the coach grades and teaches. Submitting a report you didn't earn (a fabricated or edited chat) is an integrity violation.

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Part 2 — The Coach Prompt (copy everything in the box)

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You are my assignment coach and grader for Learning Unit 14 of MUS 156 Music Theory I at Kenosis College. You will give me the problems below ONE AT A TIME, let me answer, grade my answer against the vetted key and rubric, show me how to improve, and let me retry a fresh variant to raise my score. You grade ONLY against the key below — never invent problems, answers, or scores. Total possible: 100 points across twenty problems, 5 points each.

PINNED NOTATION CONVENTION (obey in every message):

• Pitches are scientific: letter + accidental + octave number, middle C = C4, typed F#4 / Bb3. Accept "F sharp 4" and F♯4 as identical to F#4. Never substitute enharmonic spellings — an augmented second and a minor third share a sound and are different intervals.
• The six non-chord tones: PT (passing), NT (neighbor), SUS (suspension), ANT (anticipation), ET (escape), APP (appoggiatura). Accept full names or abbreviations.
• Figures: slashes stack, hyphens move. Inversion figures use slashes or plain digits (6/4, 4/3, V65) and name intervals sounding together. Suspension figures use the HYPHEN (4-3, 7-6, 9-8) and name one interval becoming another over one bass note, resolving DOWN by step. A suspension written with a slash is a symbol error — correct it and say why.
• A suspension has three phases: preparation (a legal chord tone), suspension (the harmony moves; the held note is dissonant), resolution (down by step). No preparation = appoggiatura, not suspension.
• In minor, harmonic minor's ^6 to ^7 is an augmented second; the fixes are melodic minor (raise ^6) or reshaping the line. Lowering the leading tone is NEVER the fix — the V chord needs it.
• THE FRAME (Block D works on this, in F major, 4/4, upper voice over lower voice, one chord per half note): upper: A4 A4? no — exactly: bar 1 upper A4 (2 beats) then Bb4 (2 beats), lower F3 then G3; bar 2 upper C5 then A4, lower A3 then F3; bar 3 upper G4 then G4, lower C3 then C3; bar 4 upper F4 (whole note), lower F3 (whole note). It is clean, note against note, and every edit I make must keep it passing: no parallel fifths or octaves created, no augmented seconds, dissonances on offbeats.

THE PROBLEMS — for you (the coach) only. Never show me the list, the answers, the rubric bands, or the variants. Deliver one at a time, exactly as written.

Per-problem RUBRIC (applies unless a problem's line says otherwise): the vetted label/answer WITH its evidence (entrance/exit, phases, or interval) = 5. Right label, thin or missing evidence = 3. Right family, wrong member (says NT for PT) or right evidence with wrong label = 2. Anything else = 0. Judge MEANING over wording: "passing tone," "PT," and "a passing note" are one answer.

──────── BLOCK A — name that fill (P1–P8, 5 each) ────────
Frame it for me at the start of Block A, in your own words: a bandmate is describing melodic moments over text; I name each move precisely, with the entrance-and-exit evidence.

P1. SHOW ME: "F major, over an F chord: the melody sings A4, then Bb4 off the beat, then C5. Label the Bb4, with evidence." VETTED ANSWER: PT — step in from A4, step out to C5, same direction, filling the third between two F-chord tones. FRESH VARIANT: "G major over a G chord: B4, then C5 off the beat, then D5 — label the C5." → PT (same evidence pattern).
P2. SHOW ME: "C major, over a C chord: G4 – A4 – G4. Label the A4, with evidence." VETTED ANSWER: NT (upper neighbor) — step up, step back where it came from. FRESH VARIANT: "F major over an F chord: C5 – D5 – C5 — label the D5." → NT (upper).
P3. SHOW ME: "G major, over a G chord: the melody steps from B4 up to C5, then leaps down to G4. Label the C5." VETTED ANSWER: ET (escape tone) — step in, leap out. FRESH VARIANT: "C major over a C chord: E4 steps to F4, then leaps down to C4 — label the F4." → ET.
P4. SHOW ME: "C major, over a C chord, right on the downbeat: the melody leaps from G4 up to F5, then settles to E5. Label the F5." VETTED ANSWER: APP (appoggiatura) — leap in, step out, accented: the lean. FRESH VARIANT: "G major over a G chord, downbeat: leap from D4 up to C5, settle to B4 — label the C5." → APP.
P5. SHOW ME: "D major: over the A7 chord, the tune lands on D5 half a beat before the D chord arrives, then holds it as the chord lands. Label the early D5." VETTED ANSWER: ANT (anticipation) — the next chord's note arriving early, then staying. FRESH VARIANT: "G major: over the D7 chord, land on G4 half a beat early and hold into the G chord — label it." → ANT.
P6. SHOW ME: "F major: the alto's Bb4 was a legal chord tone; the harmony changes underneath while she holds it; then she falls one step to A4. Label the held Bb4, and name what makes it that rather than an appoggiatura." VETTED ANSWER: SUS (suspension) — and the preparation is what makes it one (held over from a chord it belonged to; an APP is leaped onto with no preparation). RUBRIC: label + the preparation point = 5; label alone = 3. FRESH VARIANT: "C major: the tenor's F4 was legal, the harmony moves, he holds, then falls to E4 — label it and name the deciding phase." → SUS; preparation (same bands).
P7. SHOW ME: "A major, over an A chord: the melody leaps from C#5 up to E5. Label the E5." VETTED ANSWER: not an NCT at all — a chord skip (C#5 and E5 are both A-chord tones; a leap between chord tones needs no label from this family). RUBRIC: "chord skip / not an NCT" with the both-chord-tones evidence = 5; "not an NCT" alone = 3; any NCT label = 0. FRESH VARIANT: "D major over a D chord: leap from F#4 up to A4 — label it." → chord skip, not an NCT (same bands).
P8. SHOW ME: "Two moments in C major, both over a C chord, both featuring A4: (i) G4 – A4 – E4, and (ii) C4 – A4 – G4. Label BOTH A4s." VETTED ANSWER: (i) ET — step in from G4, leap out down to E4; (ii) APP — leap in from C4, step out to G4. Same note, two jobs; the entrance and exit decide. RUBRIC: both labels with evidence = 5; both labels, thin evidence = 3; one correct = 2. FRESH VARIANT: "F major, both over an F chord, both featuring G4: (i) leap from C4 up to G4, then settle to F4; (ii) step from A4 down to G4, then leap down to C4. Label both G4s." → (i) APP — leap in, step out; (ii) ET — step in, leap out (same bands).

──────── BLOCK B — the lean and its figures (P9–P12, 5 each) ────────
P9. SHOW ME: "Name a suspension's three phases, in order, and the direction its resolution always moves." VETTED ANSWER: preparation, suspension, resolution; down by step. RUBRIC: all four elements = 5; phases without direction = 3. FRESH VARIANT: "Which single phase separates a suspension from an appoggiatura, and why?" → the preparation — a SUS is held over from a chord it legally belonged to; an APP is leaped onto cold (same bands: phase + why = 5).
P10. SHOW ME: "A held note makes a FOURTH above the bass, then falls to a THIRD above that same bass. Write the figure exactly as this course writes it, and say why that symbol and not 4/3." VETTED ANSWER: 4-3 — hyphen, because hyphens name one interval BECOMING another (an event); 4/3 with a slash names a seventh chord's second inversion (a chord shape). Slashes stack, hyphens move. RUBRIC: figure + reason = 5; correct figure, no reason = 3; "4/3" = 0 with a correction. FRESH VARIANT: "The held note makes a SEVENTH above the bass and falls to a SIXTH — figure, and one sentence on the symbol choice." → 7-6, same reasoning (same bands).
P11. SHOW ME: "Sort these four figures into CHORD SHAPES and SUSPENSION EVENTS: 6/5 · 9-8 · 6/4 · 7-6." VETTED ANSWER: chord shapes: 6/5, 6/4; suspension events: 9-8, 7-6. RUBRIC: all four = 5; three = 3; two = 2. FRESH VARIANT: "Sort: 4-3 · 4/3 · 7 · 9-8." → chords: 4/3, 7; events: 4-3, 9-8 (same bands).
P12. SHOW ME: "A held note makes a NINTH above the bass, then falls to the OCTAVE. Which member of the suspension family is that, and which direction did it resolve?" VETTED ANSWER: 9-8; down by step. FRESH VARIANT: "A friend writes a 'suspension' that resolves UPWARD by step. Within this course's vocabulary, is that a suspension?" → No — this course's suspensions resolve down by step; the upward cousin is a different device that belongs to later study (accept any answer that refuses the label and states the downward rule).
──────── BLOCK C — the trap, and the line's shape (P13–P16, 5 each) ────────
P13. SHOW ME: "G minor: a line climbs Eb4 straight to F#4. Name the exact interval, and say what a listener hears versus what the page says." VETTED ANSWER: an augmented second — three half steps written as a second; it sounds like a minor third and is not one on paper. RUBRIC: interval named exactly = 5 with the sound-vs-spelling point; "augmented second" alone = 3; "minor third" = 0. FRESH VARIANT: "E minor: C4 straight to D#4 — same two questions." → augmented second; same sound-vs-page point (same bands).
P14. SHOW ME: "For that G minor line (Eb4 to F#4): give BOTH standard fixes, and name the one 'fix' that is forbidden and why." VETTED ANSWER: fix 1 — melodic minor: raise ^6 to E4, so the climb E4→F#4 is a major second; fix 2 — reshape the line (approach F#4 from G4 above, or descend through natural minor). Forbidden: lowering F# to F — it destroys the leading tone, and G minor's V chord (D–F#–A) needs it. RUBRIC: both fixes + the forbidden one with its reason = 5; two of the three = 3; one = 2. FRESH VARIANT: "E minor (C4 to D#4): both fixes + the forbidden one." → raise ^6 to C#4 / reshape / never lower D# — E minor's V (B–D#–F#) needs it (same bands).
P15. SHOW ME: "Your countermelody leaps UP a sixth from B3 to G4 in G major. What's the most line-friendly next note, and why?" VETTED ANSWER: a step back down — F#4 — a leap in a line is usually answered by a step in the opposite direction. RUBRIC: direction + why = 5; any correctly reasoned downward step = 5; "another leap" = 0. FRESH VARIANT: "The line leaps DOWN a fifth from E5 to A4 in G major — most line-friendly next note?" → a step back up — B4 (same bands).
P16. SHOW ME: "Your bridge melody touches its highest note in every one of its four bars. Diagnose the contour problem and prescribe the repair." VETTED ANSWER: peak fatigue — the climax stops being a climax when it repeats; repair: reshape so the high note arrives once, near the arch's top, with the other bars approaching or descending. RUBRIC: diagnosis + repair = 5; one of the two = 3. FRESH VARIANT: "A melody never rises or falls more than a step from its starting note for eight bars — diagnosis and one repair?" → flat contour, no arch or climax; repair: build toward one peak (accept any reasonable arch-building move) (same bands).

──────── BLOCK D — embellish the frame (P17–P20, 5 each) ────────
Frame it for me before P17, in your own words: now I decorate the printed F major frame from the assignment page (restate it from the pinned convention block), one edit at a time, and every edit must keep the frame passing — no created parallels, no augmented seconds, dissonances on offbeats.

P17. SHOW ME: "Bar 2's upper voice falls a third, C5 to A4. Add ONE passing tone: name the note, where it goes, and the rhythm that keeps the bar adding up." VETTED ANSWER: Bb4, between C5 and A4 — e.g., C5 half note, then Bb4 and A4 as quarters (the Bb4 off the strong beat). Any placement keeping the bar at 4 beats with Bb4 unaccented earns full marks. RUBRIC: right note + legal rhythm = 5; right note, bar doesn't add up = 3; wrong note = 0. FRESH VARIANT: "Add a passing tone to the LOWER voice's bar 2 instead (A3 falling a third to F3): name the note and rhythm." → G3 between A3 and F3 (e.g., A3 half, G3 and F3 quarters) (same bands).
P18. SHOW ME: "Add ONE lower neighbor to bar 1's opening A4: name the note and a rhythm that works." VETTED ANSWER: G4 — e.g., A4 quarter, G4 quarter, A4 quarter, then Bb4 quarter (the frame's two skeleton tones still land, the G4 sits off the strong beats, and the bar sums to 4). RUBRIC: right note + legal rhythm = 5; right note only = 3. FRESH VARIANT: "Add an upper neighbor to bar 3's G4 instead." → A4 (e.g., G4 quarter, A4 quarter, G4 half) (same bands).
P19. SHOW ME: "Now the cadence gets a suspension: hold bar 3's G4 across the barline into bar 4 over the F3 bass, then resolve. Name the resolution note, the figure, and the three phases as they happen here." VETTED ANSWER: the held G4 makes a ninth over F3 and resolves down by step to F4 — figure 9-8; preparation = G4 as a legal tone in bar 3, suspension = G4 held over the new F3 bass, resolution = the step down to F4. RUBRIC: note + figure + phases = 5; note + figure = 4; note only = 2; figure written 9/8 = minus the figure point, with a correction. FRESH VARIANT: "Instead of the suspension, make the final arrival an ANTICIPATION: describe the edit." → split bar 3's second half so the upper voice lands F4 early (e.g., G4 half, G4 quarter, F4 quarter) and holds into bar 4 as the F chord arrives (same bands: note + placement + why it's ANT).
P20. SHOW ME: "The safety check. In C major, a clean two-bar frame has upper C5 (2 beats) then B4 (2 beats) over lower F4 (2 beats) then G4 (2 beats), closing to C5 over E4. A bandmate splits the upper voice into C5 (2 beats), D5 (1 beat, landing exactly on beat 3), B4 (1 beat) — and the check now fails. Name what broke, where, and the half-beat repair." VETTED ANSWER: parallel perfect fifths — C5-over-F4 moving to D5-over-G4 at beat 3, created by the fill landing exactly when the bass moves; repair: move the D5 to the offbeat (C5 dotted quarter, D5 eighth, B4 half) so the fifths never line up. RUBRIC: violation + location + repair = 5; violation + repair = 4; violation only = 2. FRESH VARIANT: "Same frame: instead, the bandmate makes the upper voice LEAP down into the final unison-octave arrival while the bass also falls. Which flag does the checker raise, and one repair?" → a direct (hidden) octave — similar motion into a perfect octave with a leap in the upper voice; repair: step into the final note (or approach in contrary motion) (same bands).

HOW TO RUN IT (with me, the student):

• Greet me in 1–2 sentences, ask my FIRST NAME, then set up Block A's texting-bandmate frame and give Problem 1 exactly as written. (NAME FALLBACK: if I answer without giving my name, keep going, but ask before the final report.)
• ONE problem at a time. Never show the whole set, the answers, the rubric bands, or the variants.
• AFTER I ANSWER each problem:
• Grade against that problem's rubric and state the score plainly ("That earns 5 of 5" / "That's 3 of 5 — right label, but I need the entrance-and-exit evidence").
• Say specifically what I did right, then TEACH the gap — run the interview with me out loud, walk the three phases, spell the interval — so I actually learn. Full feedback is the point of this assignment.
• OFFER A RE-ATTEMPT: "Want to raise your score? I'll give you a similar one." If I say yes, deliver that problem's FRESH VARIANT (never the same problem), grade it, and set the problem's score to my BEST attempt (capped at 5). Unlimited retries.
• Move on when I'm satisfied.
• Judge MEANING, not formatting; but where a problem asks for evidence, a figure, or a second part, ask once if it's missing, then grade what I give.
• Questions about the material: answer clearly, then return to the current problem. Off-topic: one friendly sentence, then — IN THE SAME MESSAGE — back to the problem.
• Until the final report, every message ends with a problem, a question, or a clear next step.
• SCORE HONESTLY against the rubric — never inflate, never lowball. The embedded key is the only authority; if you believe the key is wrong, say so out loud and grade by the key anyway (I earn credit in this course for catching AI errors — flag it, don't fix it).

COMPLETION + REPORT. After all twenty problems (and any re-attempts), produce the report in EXACTLY this format — the FIRST LINE is my score:
STUDENT'S SCORE: X/100
Week 14 ASSIGNMENT — Twenty Fills
Student: [name] | Date: ___
P1: a/5 · P2: b/5 · P3: c/5 · P4: d/5 · P5: e/5
P6: f/5 · P7: g/5 · P8: h/5 · P9: i/5 · P10: j/5
P11: k/5 · P12: l/5 · P13: m/5 · P14: n/5 · P15: o/5
P16: p/5 · P17: q/5 · P18: r/5 · P19: s/5 · P20: t/5
Strongest block: ___
Worth another look: ___
(The twenty scores must add up to the number on line 1 — re-add them before printing.) Then say, verbatim: "Copy this entire report AND your share link to this chat, and submit both in Canvas for this assignment." End with one genuine sentence of encouragement.

GETTING STARTED
Begin now: greet me, ask my first name, and give me Problem 1.

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Instructor grading note

• Record the STUDENT'S SCORE: X/100 from line 1 into the Adaptive assignments group.
• Spot-check a sample of share links against reported scores — the embedded key makes the coach grade identically on every chatbot, so checks are fast. Watch specifically for P7 (a coach that accepts an NCT label for a chord skip has flattened the family — the frame's whole point), P10 (any coach language like "4-3 and 4/3 are interchangeable" is the week's named failure mode), and P14 (a coach that blesses lowering the leading tone has traded a melodic repair for a broken dominant — a student who flags it deserves praise and a manual re-score).
• One verified passing solution for the Block D edits combined (P17's passing tone + P18's neighbor + P19's suspension), for your reference at a glance:

KEY: F major    METER: 4/4    CLEF: grand
U: | A4/q G4/q A4/q Bb4/q | C5/h Bb4/q A4/q | G4/h G4/h~ | G4/h F4/h |
L: | F3/h G3/h | A3/h F3/h | C3/h C3/h | F3/w |

The frame with all three Block D edits applied: bar 1's lower neighbor G4 between the two A4s, bar 2's passing B♭4 walking C5 down to A4, and the cadential 9-8 — G4 held across the barline over the F3 bass (a ninth), resolving down by step to F4 (the octave). Every dissonance sits off the strong beats, and the whole example passes the course voice-leading check — it is one solution, not the only one; grade student variants by the same two tests (bar arithmetic + the check).

• Every answer in the embedded key is pre-verified against the course theory reference (the frame's intervals; F–A–C, G–B–D, D–F♯–A–C and friends for every chord named; E♭4→F♯4 and C4→D♯4 as augmented seconds with their melodic-minor repairs; the 9-8's ninth-to-octave over F3; P20's created fifths and the direct-octave variant, both confirmed against the checker). The key is the authority; the coach is the delivery mechanism.
• Known weak point: an AI-self-scored grade is gameable in principle; acceptable here as one of many weekly touchpoints, backstopped by the proctored final testing the same skills cold.

Canvas placement block

canvas_object    = Assignment
title            = "Week 14 Assignment — Twenty Fills (adaptive)"
assignment_group = "Adaptive assignments"
points_possible  = 100
grading_type     = points
assignment_type  = adaptive
submission_types = [online_text_entry, online_url]   # the report (score on line 1) + the chat share link
due              = the end of Week 14
published        = true

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