MUS 201: Table of Contents
COMMON-PRACTICE TONALITY:
A Handbook for Composition and
Analysis
TABLE
of
CONTENTS
qIntroduction
qSound and Its Notation
qPitch Intervals, Consonance, and
Dissonance
qTonality
q Pulse, Rhythm, and Meter
qThe Basics of 4-Part Writing
q Basic Harmonic Grammar
qContrapuntal Progressions and Voice-
Leading Harmonies
qScale-Degree Triads in Context
qThe Minor Mode
qMelodic Figuration
q Rhythmic Figuration
qDiatonic Seventh Chords
qHarmonic Tonicization and Modulation
qHarmonizing a Melody
qMotive, Phrase, and Melody
qDiatonic Sequences
qModal Mixture
qChromatic Voice Leading to V
qOther Chromatic Voice-Leading Chords
qTowards Analysis
qAppendices
INTRODUCTION
qWhat is Common Practice and what is "Tonal"?
qWhy "Composition" and Not "Theory"?
q Why Study Common-Practice Tonality in the First Place?
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SOUND AND ITS NOTATION
q What is sound, pitch, noise, and timbre?
q Distinguishing One Sound from Another
qPitch Notation
rThe Note
rTHE STAFF
r PITCH INTERVALS
qThe Hamonic Series, Pitch Class & Octave Perception
qTHE KEYBOARD
rHalf Steps and Whole Steps
rThe White Keys
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