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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments x111
CHAPTER 1: PITCH 1
Lesson 1: Staff
The five-line staff, pitches and notes, noteheads,
ascending and descending motion, steps and leaps,
ledger lines 1
Lesson 2: Keyboard
Piano keyboard, black and white keys, letter names for
notes, steps and leaps, octaves, piano fingering 5
Lesson 3: Treble clef
Treble clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, and natural),
semitones, enharmonic equivalence 9
Lesson 4: Bass clef
Bass clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, and natural), semitones 19
Lesson 5: Great staff
Great staff, octave designations 27
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 1
Alto clef, tenor clef, octave sign (8va), traditional octave
designations, double flats and double sharps 37
SELF-TEST FOR CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2: RHYTHM AND METER 39
Lesson 6: Quarter, half, and whole notes in 44 meter
Quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, stems, beats,
measures (bars) and barlines, 44 meter ("common time"),
upbeat, downbeat, accent, conducting patterns, tempo 39
Lesson 7: Eighth notes and sixteenth notes
Eighth notes and sixteenth notes, flags and beams 49
Lesson 8: Dots and ties
Augmentation dot, dotted rhythms, ties, anacrusis 59
Lesson 9: Rests
Rests 69
Lesson 10: Duple meter (24 and 22)
24 and 22 meter, alla breve C, upbeat, downbeat,
conducting patterns 79
Lesson 11: Triple meter (34 )
34 meter and its conducting pattern 85
Lesson 12: Compound meter (68)
Compound meter, 68 meter, and its conducting pattern 93
Lesson 13: Syncopation
Syncopation, accent, ties, subdivision 99
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 2
Rhythmic values smaller than a sixteenth note, triplets,
other duple, triple, and quadruple meters 105
SELF-TEST FOR CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3: MAJOR AND MINOR SCALES 107
Lesson 14: Major scale (C major)
Major scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones,
scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfège syllables 117
Lesson 15: Major scales other than C major
Transposition, major scales with sharps, major scales
with flats, circle of fifths 129
Lesson 16: Major keys and key signatures
Major keys, major key signatures 149
Lesson 17: Minor scale (a minor)
Minor scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones,
scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfège
syllables, raising scale-degrees 6¿ and 7¿ 163
Lesson 18: Minor scales other than a minor
Transposition, minor scales with sharps, minor scales
with flats, circle of fifths 173
Lesson 19: Minor keys and key signatures
Minor keys, minor key signatures, relative keys, parallel
keys
Lesson 20: Armonic and melodic minor 193
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 3
Harmonic minor, melodic minor, modes, pentatonic scale 207
SELF-TEST FOR CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4: INTERVALS 211
Lesson 21: Interval size
Melodic and harmonic intervals, interval size, compound
intervals 211
Lesson 22: Seconds and thirds
Interval quality, natural intervals, major and minor
intervals, diminished and augmented intervals,
enharmonic intervals 219
Lesson 23: Sixths and sevenths
Enharmonic intervals, interval inversion 231
Lesson 24: Fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves
Perfect intervals, interval inversion, enharmonic intervals 243
Lesson 25: Intervals in a major key
Intervals and scale-degrees, consonance and dissonance 255
Lesson 26: Intervals in a minor key
Intervals and scale-degrees 265
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 4
All intervals, doubly diminished and doubly augmented
intervals, intervals in harmonic and melodic minor 275
SELF-TEST FOR CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5: TRIADS AND SEVENTH CHORDS 277
Lesson 27: Triads
Triads (root, third, fifth), triad qualities (major, minor,
diminished, augmented), natural triads, chord symbols 277
Lesson 28: Triads in inversion
Soprano and bass, inversion of triads (root position,
first inversion, second inversion), figured bass (53, 63, 64) 287
Lesson 29: Triads in major keys
Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in major
keys 295
Lesson 30: Triads in minor keys
Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in minor
keys, effect of raising the leading-tone 303
Lesson 31: Seventh chords
Seventh chords, major-minor (dominant) seventh chord,
inversion of seventh chords, dominant seventh chords
in major and minor keys, figured bass symbols, chord
names 309
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 5
Qualities of seventh chords, natural seventh chords,
inversions of seventh chords, seventh chords in major
and minor keys 319
SELF-TEST FOR CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6: FUNDAMENTALS OF HARMONY 321
Lesson 32: Tonic and dominant
Harmonic progression, tonic harmony, dominant and
dominant seventh harmonies, harmonizing a melody 321
Lesson 33: Expanding I and V
Embellishment and prolongation, nonharmonic notes,
passing notes, neighboring notes, passing chords,
neighboring chords, the cadential 64 337
Lesson 34: Approaching V
Dominant preparation chords 357
Lesson 35: Phrase and cadence
Phrase, authentic cadence, half cadence, period (antecedent
and consequent), plagal cadence 371
Supplementary Lesson for Chapter 6
Doubling, voice leading, smoothness, tendency tones,
resolution of seventh, parallel fifths and octaves 385
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Music theory.