Techniques and Materials of Music: From the Common Practice Period Through the Twentieth Century

Contents

• Part I : RUDIMENTS.
• 1. The Great Staff and Piano Keyboard.
• 2. Accidentals.
• 3. Intervals.
• 4. Major and Minor Scales.
• 5. Key Signatures.
• 6. Triads.
• 7. Meter and Rhythm.
• Part II : DIATONIC MATERIALS.
• 1. Triads in Root Position.
• 2. The Tonic Triad in Root Position.
• 3. Connection of Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position.
• 4. The Dominant Seventh Chord in Root Position.
• 5. Connection of Tonic and Subdominant Triads in Root Position.
• 6. Connection of Subdominant and Dominant Triads in Root Position.
• 7. Cadences Employing the Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in Root Position.
• 8. The Cadential Tonic Six-Four Chord.
• 9. Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in First Inversion.
• 10. The Supertonic Triad.
• 11. Inversions of the Dominant Seventh Chord.
• 12. Linear (Embellishing) Six-Four and Other Chords.
• 13. Submediant and Mediant Triads in Root Position and First Inversion.
• 14. The Leading Tone Triad.
• 15. Variant Qualities of Triads.
• 16. The Sequence.
• 17. The Supertonic Seventh Chord.
• 18. The Leading Tone Seventh Chord.
• 19. Other Diatonic Seventh Chords.
• Part III : CHROMATIC MATERIALS.
• 1. Secondary (Applied, Borrowed) Dominants.
• 2. Modulation.
• 3. Linear (Embellishing) Diminished Seventh Chords.
• 4. The Neapolitan Triad.
• 5. Augmented Sixth Chords.
• 6. Modulation by Other Means.
• 7. Ninth Chords.
• Part IV : TWENTIETH-CENTURY MATERIALS.
• 1. Twentieth-Century Techniques: General Comments.
• 2. Further Concepts for Analysis.
• 3. Rhythmic and Metric Devices.
• 4. Tertian Harmony.
• 5. The Diatonic (Church) Modes.
• 6. Pandiatonicism.
• 7. Exotic (Artificial, Synthetic) Scales.
• 8. Quartal and Secondal Harmony.
• 9. Polyharmony and Polytonality.
• 10. Free Atonality.
• 11. Twelve-Tone Serialism.
• 12. Additional Contemporary Procedures.
• Part V : REFERENCE MATERIALS.
• 1. Musical Calligraphy.
• 2. The Harmonic Series.
• 3. Nonharmonic (Nonchord) Tones.
• 4. Relative and Linear Motion.
• 5. Guidelines for Voice Leading in Strict Four-Part Writing.
• 6. Guidelines for Doubling in Strict Four-Part Writing.
• 7. Checklist for Part Writing.
• 8. Chord Functions in Tonal Music.
• 9. Figured-Bass Symbols.
• 10. Procedure for Harmonizing a Figured Bass.
• 11. Procedure for Harmonizing a Melody.
• 12. Models for Expansion and Elaboration.
• 13. Cadence and Phrase Structure.
• 14. Typical Phrase Variants.
• 15. The Motive.
• 16. The Sequence.
• 17. Textures.
• 18. an introduction to Tonal Melody.
• 19. an introduction to Tonal Counterpoint.
• 20. Form.
• 21. Checklist for Analysis.
• 22. Composition Checklist.
• 23. Instrumental Ranges and Transpositions. Bibliography. Index.