Revisiting Music Theory: Basic Principles

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on the Use of This Book
• Part 1. Notation: The Symbols of Music
• 1. The Components of Sound and Music
• 2. The Notation of Pitch
• 3. The Notation of Duration
• 4. The Organization of Time
• 5. Movement, Language, and Musical Rhythms
• 6. The Notation of Loudness and Style
• 7. The Notation of Tone Quality
• 8. Conducting Music
• Part 2. Melody: Note Following Note
• 1. Intervals
• 2. The Modes
• 3. The Major Scale
• 4. Key Signatures for Major Scales
• 5. The Minor Scales
• 60 Other Minor Scales
• 7. Key Signatures for Minor Keys
• 8. Scale Degrees
• 9. The Melodic Structure
• 10. Expanded Melodic Sources
• Part 3. Harmony: Note(s) with Note(s)
• 1. Intervals
• 2. Triads
• 3. The Inversion of Triads
• 4. Triads within Key
• 5. Seventh Chords
• 6. Harmonic Progressions
• 7. Harmonic Rhythm
• 8. Cadences
• 9. Secondary Dominants
• 10. More Chords on the Secondary Level
• 11. Other Chords
• Part 4. Melodies in Harmony
• 1. Part Writing
• 2. Creating the Harmonic Structure
• 3. Non-Harmonic Tones
• 4. Analyzing Later Styles
• 5. Nineteenth-Century Analysis
• Part 5. Texture, Structures, Techniques, and Form
• 1. The Textures of Music
• 2. Fundamental Structures
• 3. Melodic Manipulation
• 4. Form
• Part 6. Appendices
• Appendix I. Systems for Identifying Pitch
• Appendix II. The Harmonic Series
• Appendix III. Tuning and Temperament
• Appendix IV. The Circle of Fifths
• Appendix V. Transposition
• Appendix VI. All Major Scales in Four Clefs
• Appendix VII. All Minor Scales in Four Clefs
• Appendix VIII. Inversions of All Triads on All Pitches in Two Clefs
• Appendix IX. Inversions of All Common Seventh Chords on All Pitches in Two Clefs
• Appendix X. Primary Chords in All Major and Minor Keys in Two Clefs
• Appendix XI. Chord Symbols Used in Lead Sheet and Fake Book Notation in Two Clefs