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