Description
This is a textbook to develop the musicianship of a music performer, the basic course required of every college music major, but successfully learned by advanced musicians from high school age and older. The complete chordal vocabulary is learned, along with melodic and original compositions, in the style of hymns.
Contents
- The Keyboard and Musical Alphabet; Scales
- Intervals
- Triads
- Triads in Root Position Arranged for Four Voices
- Progression of Principal Triads
- Secondary Triads
- Triads in First Inversion
- Triads in Second Inversion
- Cadences
- Harmonization of Melodies
- Passing and Auxiliary Tones
- Modulation by Pivot Chord
- Harmonies of the Melodic Minor Scale
- Suspension, Ornamental Resolution, Appoggiatura
- Interchangeable Harmonies
- The Dominant Seventh Chord
- Modulation with the Dominant Seventh
- Seventh Chords on the Leading Tone
- Secondary Seventh Chords
- Borrowed Dominant Forms
- Modulation with Chords on the Leading Tone
- The Nondominant Diminished Seventh Chord
- Changing Tones, Anticipation, and Pedal Point
- Ninth Chords
- Eleventh Chords
- Thirteenth Chords
- The Sequence
- Chromatic Chords; The Neapolitan Sixth Chord
- Augmented Sixth Chords
- C Clefs and Open Score
- Other Chromatic Alterations
- Other Methods of Modulation
- Modes
- Parallelism
- Polychords and Polytonality
- Expanded Metric and Rhythmic Resources
- Other Scale Systems and Chord Formations
- Synthetic Scales
- Nontertial Harmonies
- The Chromatic Scale
- Summary
Appendix 1: Other Irregular Features and Exceptional Progressions
Appendix II: Masterworks for Analysis and Observation
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