Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music

This book is designed to be the primary text for the first two years of college music theory. It covers all the basics of composition including harmony, melody, and musical form.

Preface

ix

(2)

Suggestions to the Instructor

xi

Part I Rudiments

3

(28)

1 The Great Staff and Piano Keyboard

3

(1)

2 Accidentals

4

(2)

3 Intervals

6

(7)

4 Major and Minor Scales

13

(2)

5 Key Signatures

15

(2)

6 Meter and Rhythm

17

(14)

Part II Diatonic Materials

31

(94)

1 Triads in Root Position

31

(4)

2 The Tonic Triad in Root Position

35

(3)

3 Connection of Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position

38

(5)

4 The Dominant Seventh Chord in Root Position

43

(6)

5 Connection of Tonic and Subdominant Triads in Root Position

49

(1)

6 Connection of Subdominant and Dominant Triads in Root Position

50

(3)

7 Cadences Employing the Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in Root Position

53

(2)

8 The Cadential Tonic Six-Four Chord

55

(4)

9 Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in First Inversion

59

(9)

10 The Supertonic Triad

68

(6)

11 Inversions of the Dominant Seventh Chord

74

(7)

12 Linear (Embellishing) Six-Four and Other Chords

81

(4)

13 Submediant and Mediant Triads in Root Position and First Inversion

85

(6)

14 The Leading Tone Triad

91

(4)

15 Variant Qualities of Triads

95

(8)

16 The Sequence

103

(5)

17 The Supertonic Seventh Chord

108

(5)

18 The Leading Tone Seventh Chord

113

(6)

19 Other Diatonic Seventh Chords

119

(6)

Part III Chromatic Materials

125

(66)

1 Secondary (Applied, Borrowed) Dominants

125

(7)

2 Modulation

132

(7)

3 Linear (Embellishing) Diminished Seventh Chords

139

(6)

4 The Neapolitan Triad

145

(5)

5 Augmented Sixth Chords

150

(7)

6 Modulation by Other Means

157

(4)

7 Ninth Chords

161

(30)

Part IV Twentieth-Century Materials

191

(18)

1 Twentieth-Century Techniques: General Comments

167

(2)

2 Further Concepts for Analysis

169

(3)

3 Rhythmic and Metric Devices

172

(4)

4 Tertian Harmony

176

(5)

5 The Diatonic (Church) Modes

181

(3)

6 Exotic (Artificial, Synthetic) Scales

184

(4)

7 Pandiatonicism

188

(3)

8 Quartal and Secondal Harmony

191

(3)

9 Polyharmony and Polytonality

194

(4)

10 Intervals in Twentieth-Century Music

198

(2)

11 Twelve-Tone Serialism

200

(5)

12 Additional Contemporary Procedures

205

(4)

Part V Reference Materials

209

(68)

1 Musical Calligraphy

209

(2)

2 The Overtone Series

211

(1)

3 Nonharmonic (Nonchord) Tones

212

(2)

4 Relative and Linear Motion

214

(1)

5 Guidelines for Voice Leading in Strict Four-Part Writing

215

(2)

6 Guidelines for Doubling in Strict Four-Part Writing

217

(1)

7 Checklist for Part-Writing

218

(1)

8 Chord Functions in Tonal Music

219

(2)

9 Figured-Bass Symbols

221

(2)

10 Procedure for Harmonizing a Figured Bass

223

(2)

11 Procedure for Harmonizing a Melody

225

(4)

12 Models for Expansion and Elaboration

229

(2)

13 Cadence and Phrase Structure

231

(1)

14 Typical Phrase Variants

232

(2)

15 The Motive

234

(6)

16 The Sequence

240

(4)

17 Textures

244

(4)

18 An Introduction to Tonal Melody

248

(5)

19 An Introduction to Tonal Counterpoint

253

(8)

20 Form

261

(7)

21 Checklist for Analysis

268

(5)

22 Composition Checklist

273

(2)

23 Instrumental Ranges and Transpositions

275

(2)

Bibliography

277

(2)

Index

279

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