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Osvaldo Glieca

Random Music Theory Studies

Volume 1

(2007)

© 2007
Contents

1. Modulation matrix

2. Figured Bass

3. Voice Leading, Pt. 1

4. Rules for the Construction of Melody

5. Cadence, Pt. 1 - Introduction

6. Common Root Progression in the Major and Minor Mode

7. Setting Words to Music

8. Three Types of Accent (dynamic, tonic, agogic)

9. Ornamentation, Pt. 1 (appoggiatura, mordents, trills, turns)

10. Note Values, Anacrusis or Upbeat

11. Four Types of Cadences, Pt. 2

Landini, Gypsy/Magyar, Authentic and Jazz Cadences

12. Four Types of Syncopation

13. Setting Words to Music

14. Composing Melodies

15. Classical Harmonic Folk Dance Progressions

Passamezzo Antico, Passamezzo Moderno, Romanesca, Bergamasca,

Chaconne and Passacaglia, Folia.

16. The Perception of Music

17. Frequency Rate and Musical Pitches

18. Four-Part Writing

19. Voice Leading, Pt. 2

20. Augmented Sixth Chords

21. The Neapolitan Sixth Chord


22. Chord Progressions & Creating Predictability

23. Chord Spacing in Vocal Polyphony

24. Four-Part Harmonisation

25. Harmonic Progressions and Occurrence of Probability in Tonal Music

26. Plato’s Musical Idealism

27. Seventh Chords

28. Creating Surprise - Schematic, Dynamic, Veridical, Conscious

29. Added Sixth Chords

30. Motive

31. Rhetoric & Music

32. Schematic Predictability

33. Monophony, Polyphony, Homophony, Heterophony, Freistimmigkeit, Antiphony

34. The Lament

35. String Instruments

36. Motive Structure

37. Four-Part Writing

38. Ornamentations, Pt. 2 (appoggiatura, trills, turns, mordent)

39. Statistical Properties of Music


© 2007

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