Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music,9780534526238

Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music

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ISBN13: 9780534526238
ISBN10: 0534526233
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-17
Publisher(s): Schirmer
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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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