Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Elements of Pitch
“The Keyboard and Octave Registers
Notation of the Stat,
“The Major Scale
‘The Majer Key Signatures
Minor Seale
Minor Key Signatures
Scale Degree Names
Intervals
Perfect, Major, and Minor Intervals
Augmented arié Diminished Intervals
Inversion of Intervals
Consonant and Dissonant Intervals
chapter
Rhythm
Durational Symbols
Beat anc Tempo
Meter
Division ofthe Beat
Simple Time Signatures
‘Compound Time Signatures
‘Time Signatures Summarized
More on Durational Symbols
Elements of Rhythm
Chapter 3: Introduction to Triads and Seventh Chords
Triads
Seventh Chords
Inversions of Chords
Inversion Symbols and Figured Bass.
Lead Sheet Symbols
Recognizing Chords in Various Textures
Chapter 4: Diatonic Chords in Major and Minor Keys
“The Minor Scale
Diatonic Triads in Major
Diatonic Triads in Minor
Diatonie Seventh Chords in Major
Diatonic Seventh Chores in Minor
Part II: Diatonic Triads
Chapter 5: Principles of Voice Leading
The Melodie Line
NNotating Chords
Voicing a Single Trad
Parallel Motion
Chapter 6: Root Position Part Writing
Root Postion Part Writing with Repeated Roots
Root Postion Part Writing with Roots @ 4th (Sth) Apart
Root Postion Part Writing with Roots @ 3rd (6th) Apart
Root Postion Part Writing with Roots a 3rd(7th) Apart
Instrumental Ranges and Transposttions
Chapter 7: Harmonic Progression
Sequences and the Circe of Fifths
‘The I and V Chords
‘The Ht Chord
The VI Chora
‘The III Chord
‘The VII Chord
The IV Chord
‘Common Exceptions
Differences in the Minor Mode
Progressions Involving Seventh Chords
Harmonizing a Simple Melody
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Triads in First Inversion
Bess Arpeggiation|
Substituted First Inversion Triads
Parallel Sith Chords
Part Weting Fist Inversion Triads
‘Soprano-Bass Counterpoint‘Chapter 9: Triads in Second Inversion
Bass Arpegglation and the Melodic Bass
‘The Cadential Six-Four
‘The Passing Shx-Four
‘The Pedal Six-Four
Part Writing for Second Inversion Triads
‘Chapter 10: Cadences, Phrases, and Periods
Musieal Form
cadences
CCadences and Harmonic Rhythm
Motives and Phrases
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Period Forms
‘Chapter 11: Non-Chord Tones 1
‘Classification of Non-Chora Tones
Passing Tones
Neighboring Tones
‘Suspensions and Retardations
Figured Gass and Lead Sheet Symbols
Embellshing a Simple Texture
‘Chapter 12: Non-Chord Tones 2
‘Appoagiaturas
Escape Tones
‘The Neighbor Group
Anticipations
‘The Pedal Point
Special Problems in the Analysis of Non-Chord Tones
Part IIT: Diatonic Seventh Chords
Chapter 13: The V7 Chord
General Voice-Leading Considerations
‘The V7 in Root Position
‘The V7 in Three Parts
(Other Resolutions of the V7
‘The Inverted V7 Chord
‘The V6/S Chord
‘The v4/3 Chord
‘The v4/2 Chord
‘The Approach to the Seventh
(Chapter 14: The 117 and VII7 Chords
‘The 117 Chord
‘The VII7 Chord in Major
‘The VII7 Chord in Minor
Chapter 15: Other Diatonic Seventh Chords
‘The IV7 Chord
‘The VI7 Chord
‘The 17 Chord
‘The 1117 Chora
‘Seventh Chords and the Cirle-of-Fifths Progression
Part IV: Chromaticism 1
‘Chapter 16: Secondary Functions 1
‘Chromaticism and Altered Chords
Secondary Functions
‘Secondary Dominant Chords
‘Spelling Secondary Dominants
Recognizing Secondary Dominants
Secondary Dominants in Context
Chapter 17: Secondary Functions 2
‘Secondary Leading-Tone Chords
Speling Secondary Leading-Tone Chords
Recognizing Secondary Leading-Tone Chorés
‘Secondary Leading-Tane Chords in Context
‘Sequences Involving Secondary Functions
Deceptive Resolutions of Secondary Functions
‘Other Secondary FunctionsChapter 18: Modulations Using Diatonic Common Chords
Modulation and Change of Key
Modulation and Tanicization
Key Relationships
Common-Chord Modulation
Analyzing Comman-Chord Madulation
Chapter 19: Some Other Modulatory Techniques
Akered Chords as Common Chords
‘Sequential Modulation
Modulation by Common Tone
Monophonic Modulation
Direct Modulation
Chapter 20: Binary and Ternary Forms
Formal Terminolooy
Binary Forms
‘Temary Forms
Rounded Binary Forms.
12-Bar Blues
Other Formal Designs
Part V: Chromat
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Chapter 21: Mode Mixture
Borrowed Chords in Minor
‘The Use of B-Flat 6 in Major
Other Borrowed Chords in Major
Modulations Involving Mode Mixture
Chapter 22: The Neapolitan Chord
Conventional Use of the Neapolitan
Other Uses of the Neapolitan
Chapter 23: Augmented Sixth Chords 1
‘he Interval of the Augmented Sixth
‘The Italian Augmented Sixth Chord
‘The French Augmented Sixth Chord
‘The German Augmented Sixth Chord
(Other Uses of te Conventional Augmentea Sixth Chords
Chapter 24: Augmented Sixth Chords 2
Other Bass Positions
Resolutions to Tonic
Resolutions to Other Scale Degrees
Resolutions to Other Chord Members
Other Types of Augmented Sixth Chords
Chapter 25: Enharmonic Spel
Enharmonic Spelings
Enharmonic Interpretation
Enharmonic Modulations Using the Major-Minor Seventh Sonority
Enharmonic Modulations Using the Diminished Seventh Chord
Other Examples of Enharmonicism
195 and Enharmonic Modulations
Chapter 26: Further Elements of the Harmonie Vocabulary
‘The Dominant with @ Substituted Sth
‘The Dominant with a Raised Sth
‘Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Chords
“The Common-Tone Diminished Seventh Chord
Simultaneities
Colristic Chord Progressions
Part VI: Late Romanticism and the Twentieth Century
Chapter 27: Tonal Harmony in the Late Nineteenth Century
Counterpoint
‘Treatment of Dominant Harmony
Sequence
Expanded Tonalty
Chapter 28: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Practices
Impressionism
scalesBorrowed Chords in Minor
The Use of B-Flat 6 In Major
Other Borrowed Chords in Major
Modulations Involving Mode Mixture
Chapter 22: The Neapolitan Chord
Conventional Use of the Neapolitan
Other Uses of the Neapolitan
Chapter 23: Augmented Sixth Chords 1
The Interval of the Augmented Sixth
The Italian Augmented Sixth Chord
‘The French Augmented Sixth Chord
The German Augmented Sixth Chord
Other Uses of the Conventional Augmented Sixth Chords
Chapter 24: Augmented Sixth Chords 2
Other Bass Positions
Resolutions to Tonic
Resolutions to Other Scale Degrees
Resolutions to Other Chord Members
Other Types of Augmented Sixth Chords
Chapter 25: Enharmonic Spellings and Enharmonic Modulations
Enharmonic Spellings
Enharmonic Interpretation
Enharmonic Modulations Using the Major-Minor Seventh Sonority
Enharmonic Modulations Using the Diminished Seventh Chord
Other Examples of Enharmonicism
Chapter 26: Further Elements of the Harmonic Vocabulary
‘The Dominant with a Substituted Sth
‘The Dominant with a Raised Sth
Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Chords
‘The Common-Tane Diminished Seventh Chord
Simultaneities
Coloristic Chord Progressions
Part VI: Late Romanticism and the Twentieth Century
Chapter 27: Tonal Harmony in the Late Nineteenth Century
Counterpoint
Treatment of Dominant Harmony
Sequence
Expanded Tonality,
Chapter 28: An Introduction to Twentleth-Century Practices
Impressionism
Scales
Chord Structure
Parallelism
Pandiatonicism
Rhythm and Meter
Set Theory
The Twelve-Tone Technique
Tonal Serialization
Aleatory of Chance Music
‘Texture and Expanded Instrumental Resources
Electronic Music,
‘Summary and Forward Look
Appendix A: Instrumental Ranges and Transpositions.
Appendix B: Answers to Self-Tests
Appendix C: Index of Music Examples
Name Index
Subject Index