Table of Contents: Manual for Sight Singing
The Fundamentals of Meter and Rhythm
The Fundamentals of Pitch
Combining Pitches With Meter and Rhythm
Error Detection and Correction
More About Meter and Rhythm
More About Pitch
Notating Meter and Rhythm
Notating Pitches
Combining Rhythm and Pitch Notation
Dictation in Longer Contexts
The Fifteen Major Keys
Ties and The Dotted Beat
More about Intervals: Number and Quality
Skips to 7/ti and 2/re as Prefix Neighbors
Tempo
Compound Meters
Introduction to the Minor Mode: Relative and Parallel Approaches
Chromatic Lower Neighbors
More About the Minor Mode: Chromaticism Through Modal Borrowing
Triplets and Duplets
Introduction to Transcription
Quadruple Division of the Beat in Simple Meters
Conducting Pulse Levels Other than the Notated Beat
Performance Indications
The Dominant Triad
The C-Clefs: Alto and Tenor Clefs
Skips to 4/fa and 6/la/le as Prefix Neighbors
Sextuple Division of the Beat in Compound Meters
Repeat Signs
The Subdominant Triad
Syncopation
The Dominant Seventh Chord in Melodic Contexts
Introduction to Harmonic Singing
Introduction to Harmonic Listening: Harmonic Rhythm and Cadences
Two-Part Music
Introduction to Bass Line Dictation
Root Position and First Inversion Triads
Introduction to Voice Leading
Triad Qualities
The Leading-Tone Triad
The Supertonic Triad
The Submediant Triad
The Mediant Triad
The Dominant Seventh Chord in Harmonic Contexts
Voice Leading Techniques
Six-Four Figures
Other Seventh Chords
Transposition
The Modes: Relative Approach
The Modes: Parallel Approach
Advanced Triplets
Chromatic Passing Tones
Skips to Chromatic Pitches as Prefix Neighbors
Chords Applied to the Dominant
Chords Applied to the Subdominant
Chords Applied to the Supertonic
Chords Applied to the Submediant
Chords Applied to the Mediant
The Neapolitan Chord
The Augmented Sixth Chords
Other Chords
Melodic Sequence
Harmonic Sequence
Other Clefs
Hemiola
Stepwise Chromatic Alterations
Reading in Keys Other Than the Notated Key Signature
Introduction to Modulation
Closely Related Modulation from the Major Mode
Closely Related Modulation from the Minor Mode
Distant Modulations
Successive Modulations
Fragments of Tonality
Advanced Metric Concepts
More Advanced Rhythms
Some Common Non-Diatonic Pitch Collections
Hypermeter
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