Contents
- Preface
- A Message to the Student: Why Do We Study Music Theory?
- Introduction: The Fundamentals of Music
- Chapter A Pitch: Notation and Intervals
- Chapter B Rhythm and Meter
- Chapter C Tonality: Scales and Keys
- Chapter D The Rudiments of Harmony I: Triads and Seventh Chords
- Chapter E The Rudiments of Harmony II: Labeling Chords. Musical Texture
- Chapter F Introduction to Species Counterpoint
- Part I: Diatonic Harmony
- Chapter 1 Harmonic Progression. The Connection of Chords
- Chapter 2 The Fundamental Progression: The Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position.
- Chapter 3 Harmonic Function; the Subdominant Triad in Root Position
- Chapter 4 Triads in First Inversion
- Chapter 5 The Supertonic: Melody Harmonization
- Chapter 6 Nonchord Tones
- Chapter 7 6/4 Chords
- Chapter 8 The Dominant Seventh and Its Inversions
- Chapter 9 The Leading-Tone Triad
- Chapter 10 Cadences
- Chapter 11 Building the Context for Harmony I: Phrase Structure
- Chapter 12 Building the Context for Harmony II: Thematic Development
- Chapter 13 Harmonic Rhythm; Metric Reduction
- Chapter 14 The Mediant, Submediant, and Subtonic Triads
- Chapter 15 Other Diatonic Seventh Chords
- Chapter 16 Harmonic Sequences
- Part II: Chromatic Harmony and Form
- Chapter 17 Tonicization I
- Chapter 18 Tonicization II
- Chapter 19 Tonicization III: Secondary Leading-Tone Chords
- Chapter 20 Modulation to Closely-Related Keys
- Chapter 21 Small Forms: Binary and Ternary; Variation Forms
- Chapter 22 Contrapuntal Genres: Invention and Fugue
- Chapter 23 Modal Mixture
- Chapter 24 The Neapolitan Chord
- Chapter 25 Augmented Sixth Chords
- Chapter 26 Chromatic Modulatory Techniques:Modulation to Distantly Related Keys I
- Chapter 27 Modulation to Distantly-Related Keys II; Linear Chromaticism I
- Chapter 28 Introduction to Large Forms
- Chapter 29 Expanding Functional Tonality: Extended Tertian Chords; Linear Chromaticism II;
- Chapter 30 The German Romantic Lied: Chromatic Harmony in Context
- Chapter 31 Toward (and Beyond) the Limits of Functional Tonality
- Appendix: Transposing Instruments
- Musical Example Index
- Subject Index