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The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis

Contents

  • Part I: Building a Musical Vocabulary: Basic Elements of Pitch and Rhythm
  • 1. Pitch and Pitch Class
  • 2. Beat, Meter, and Rhythm: Simple Meters
  • 3. Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys
  • 4. Minor Keys and the Diatonic Modes
  • 5. Beat, Meter, and Rhythmic Values: Compound Meters
  • 6. Pitch Intervals
  • 7. Triads and Seventh Chords
  • Part II: Linking Musical Elements in Time
  • 8. Intervals in Action (Two-Voice Composition)
  • 9. Melodic and Rhythmic Embellishment in Two-Voice Composition
  • 10. Notation and Scoring
  • 11. Voicing Chords in Multiple Parts: Instrumentation
  • Part III: The Phrase Model
  • 12. The Basic Phrase Model: Tonic and Dominant Voice-Leading
  • 13. Embellishing Tones
  • 14. Chorale Harmonization and Figured Bass
  • 15. Expanding the Basic Phrase: Leading-Tone, Predominant, and 6/4 Chords
  • 16. Further Expansions of the Basic Phrase: Tonic Expansions, Root Progressions, and the Mediant Triad
  • 17. The Interaction of Melody and Harmony: More on Cadence, Phrase, and Melody
  • 18. Diatonic Sequences
  • 19. Intensifying the Dominant: Secondary Dominants and Secondary Leading-Tone Chords; New Voice-Leading Chords
  • 20. Phrase Rhythm and Motivic Analysis
  • Part IV: Further Expansion of the Harmonic Vocabulary
  • 21. Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than V
  • 22. Modulation to Closely Related Keys
  • 23. Binary and Ternary Forms
  • 24. Color and Drama in Composition: Modal Mixture and Chromatic Mediants and Submediants
  • 25. Chromatic Approaches to V: The Neapolitan Sixth and Augmented-Sixths
  • Part V: Musical Form and Interpretation
  • 26. Popular Song and Art Song
  • 27. Variation and Rondo
  • 28. Sonata-Form Movements
  • 29. Chromaticism
  • Part VI: Into the Twentieth Century
  • 30. Modes, Scales, and Sets
  • 31. Music Analysis with Sets
  • 32. Sets and Set Classes
  • 33. Ordered Segments and Serialism
  • 34. Twelve-Tone Rows and the Row Matrix
  • 35. New Ways to Organize Rhythm, Meter, and Duration
  • 36. New Ways to Articulate Musical Form
  • 37. The Composer’s Materials Today