Elements of Music 4e

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Pitch
• Lesson 1: Staff
• The five-line staff, pitches and notes, noteheads, ascending and descending motion,
• steps and leaps, ledger lines
• Lesson 2: Keyboard
• Piano keyboard, black and white keys, letter names for notes, steps and leaps, octaves, piano fingering
• Lesson 3: Treble clef
• Treble clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, and natural), semitones, enharmonic equivalence
• Lesson 4: Bass clef
• Bass clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, natural), semitones
• Lesson 5: Great staff
• Great staff
• Chapter 1: Supplementary Lesson
• Alto clef, tenor clef, octave signs (8va and 8vb), octave designations, double flats, and double sharps
• Chapter 1: Self-Test
• Chapter 2 Rhythm and Meter
• Lesson 6: Quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes in 4/4 meter
• Quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, stems, beats, measures (bars) and barlines, meter (common time), upbeat, downbeat, accent, conducting patterns, tempo
• Lesson 7: Eighth notes and sixteenth notes
• Eighth notes and sixteenth notes, flags, beams
• Lesson 8: Dots and ties
• Augmentation dot, dotted rhythms, ties, anacrusis
• Lesson 9: Rests
• Rests
• Lesson 10: Duple meter
• 2/4 and 2/2 meter, upbeat, downbeat, conducting patterns
• Lesson 11: Triple meter
• 3/4 meter and its conducting pattern
• Lesson 12: Compound meter
• Compound meter, 6/8 meter, and its conducting pattern
• Lesson 13: Syncopation
• Syncopation, accent marks, ties, and subdivision
• Chapter 2: Supplementary Lesson
• Stem direction, anacrusis, rhythmic values smaller than a sixteenth note, triplets, other duple, triple, and quadruple meters
• Chapter 2: Self-Test
• Chapter 3 Major and Minor Scales
• Lesson 14: Major scale (C major)
• Major scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones, scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfege syllables
• Lesson 15: Major scales other than C major
• Transposition, major scales with sharps, major scales with flats, circle of fifths
• Lesson 16: Major keys and key signatures
• Major keys and key signatures
• Lesson 17: Minor scale (A minor)
• Minor scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones, scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfege syllables, and raising scale-degrees
• Lesson 18: Minor scales other than A minor
• Transposition, minor scales with sharps, minor scales with flats, circle of fifths
• Lesson 19: Minor keys and key signatures
• Minor keys, minor key signatures, relative keys, parallel keys
• Lesson 20: Harmonic and melodic minor
• Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales
• Chapter 3: Supplementary Lesson
• Modes and the pentatonic scale
• Chapter 3: Self-Test
• Chapter 4 Intervals
• Lesson 21: Interval size
• Intervals, melodic and harmonic intervals, interval size, compound intervals
• Lesson 22: Seconds and thirds
• Interval quality, natural intervals, major and minor intervals, diminished and augmented intervals, enharmonically equivalent intervals
• Lesson 23: Sixths and Sevenths
• Sixths and sevenths, enharmonically equivalent intervals, interval inversion
• Lesson 24: Fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves
• Perfect intervals, fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves, interval inversion, enharmonically equivalent intervals
• Lesson 25: Intervals in a major key
• Intervals in a major key, intervals and scale degrees, consonance and dissonance
• Lesson 26: Intervals in a minor key
• Intervals in a minor key, intervals and scale degrees
• Chapter 4: Supplementary Lesson
• All intervals, doubly diminished and doubly augmented intervals, intervals in harmonic and melodic minor
• Chapter 4: Self-Test
• Chapter 5 Triads and Seventh Chords
• Lesson 27: Triads
• Triads (root, third, and fifth), triad qualities (major, minor, diminished, augmented), natural triads, chord symbols
• Lesson 28: Triads in inversion
• Soprano and bass, inversion of triads (root position, first inversion, second inversion), figured bass ( , , )
• Lesson 29: Triads in major keys
• Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in major keys
• Lesson 30: Triads in minor keys
• Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in minor keys, and the effect of raising the leading tone
• Lesson 31: Seventh chords
• Seventh chords, major-minor (dominant) seventh chords, inversions of seventh chords, dominant seventh chords in major and minor keys, figured bass symbols, chord names
• Chapter 5: Supplementary Lesson
• Qualities of seventh chords, natural seventh chords, inversions of seventh chords, and seventh chords in major and minor keys
• Chapter 5: Self-Test
• Chapter 6 Harmony and Form
• Lesson 32: Tonic and dominant
• Harmonic progression, tonic harmony, dominant and dominant seventh harmonies, harmonizing a melody
• Lesson 33: Extending a harmonic progression
• Dominant preparation chords (ii and IV), preceding a dominant preparation chord (vi), and moving directly from IV to I
• Lesson 34: Phrase and cadence
• Phrase, authentic cadence, half cadence, and plagal cadence
• Lesson 35: Form
• Combining four-measure phrases into longer groupings (eight-, twelve-, and sixteen-measure periods) and song forms (A-B-A and A-A-B-A)
• Chapter 6: Supplementary Lesson
• Nonharmonic tones, doubling, tendency tones, voice-leading smoothness, and parallel fifths and octaves
• Glossary