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Introduction
Acknowledgments
Statement on Spotify Usage
Instructor Resources
Changelog
Für Deutschsprachige
Pour les francophones
Introduction to Western Musical Notation
Chelsey Hamm
Notation of Notes, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
Reading Clefs
The Keyboard and the Grand Staff
Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals
American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN)
Chelsey Hamm and Bryn Hughes
Other Aspects of Notation
Mark Gotham and Chelsey Hamm
Notating Rhythm
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; and Bryn Hughes
Simple Meter and Time Signatures
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; and Kris Shaffer
Compound Meter and Time Signatures
Other Rhythmic Essentials
Major Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
Minor Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
Introduction to Diatonic Modes and the Chromatic "Scale"
Intervals
Triads
Seventh Chords
Inversion and Figured Bass
Samuel Brady and Chelsey Hamm
Roman Numerals
Samuel Brady and Kris Shaffer
Texture
Samuel Brady and Mark Gotham
Chords in SATB style
Samuel Brady
Introduction to Species Counterpoint
Kris Shaffer and Mark Gotham
First-Species Counterpoint
Second-Species Counterpoint
Third-Species Counterpoint
Fourth-Species Counterpoint
Fifth-Species Counterpoint
Gradus ad Parnassum Exercises
Mark Gotham
16th-Century Contrapuntal Style
High Baroque Fugal Exposition
Ground Bass
Galant Schemas
Galant Schemas – Summary
Galant schemas – The Rule of the Octave and Harmonizing the Scale with Sequences
Foundational Concepts for Phrase-Level Forms
John Peterson
The Phrase, Archetypes, and Unique Forms
Hybrid Phrase-Level Forms
Expansion and Contraction at the Phrase Level
Formal Sections in General
Brian Jarvis
Binary Form
Ternary Form
Sonata Form
Rondo
Introduction to Form in Popular Music [crosslist]
AABA and Strophic Form [crosslist]
Verse-Chorus Form [crosslist]
Introduction to Harmony, Cadences, and Phrase Endings
Strengthening Endings with V⁷
Strengthening Endings with Strong Predominants
Embellishing Tones
Strengthening Endings with Cadential 6/4
Prolonging Tonic at Phrase Beginnings with V⁶ and Inverted V⁷s
Performing Harmonic Analysis Using the Phrase Model
Prolongation at Phrase Beginnings using the Leading-Tone Chord
6/4 Chords as Forms of Prolongation
Plagal Motion as a Form of Prolongation
La (6̂) in the Bass at Beginnings, Middles, and Endings
The Mediant Harmonizing Mi (3̂) in the Bass
Predominant Seventh Chords
Tonicization
Megan Lavengood and John Peterson
Extended Tonicization and Modulation to Closely Related Keys
Modal Mixture
Neapolitan 6th (♭II⁶)
Augmented Sixth Chords
Common-Tone Chords (CTᴼ⁷ & CT⁺⁶)
Harmonic Elision
Chromatic Modulation
Bryn Hughes
Augmented Options
Equal Divisions of the Octave
Chromatic Sequences
The Omnibus Progression
Altered and Extended Chords
Neo-Riemannian Triadic Progressions
Mediants
Swing Rhythms
Megan Lavengood
Chord Symbols
Jazz Voicings
ii–V–I
Embellishing Chords
Substitutions
Chord-Scale Theory
John Kocur
Blues Harmony
Bryn Hughes and Megan Lavengood
Blues Melodies and the Blues Scale
Rhythm and Meter in Pop Music
Bryn Hughes; Kris Shaffer; and Megan Lavengood
Drumbeats
Scott Hanenberg
Melody and Phrasing
Introduction to Form in Popular Music
AABA Form and Strophic Form
Verse-Chorus Form
Texture in Pop Music
Introduction to Harmonic Schemas in Pop Music
Blues-Based Schemas
Four-Chord Schemas
Megan Lavengood and Bryn Hughes
Classical Schemas (in a Pop Context)
Bryn Hughes and Kris Shaffer
Puff Schemas
Modal Schemas
Pentatonic Harmony
Mark Gotham and Bryn Hughes
Fragile, Absent, and Emergent Tonics
Twentieth-Century Rhythmic Techniques
Pitch and Pitch Class
Intervals in Integer Notation
Brian Moseley and Megan Lavengood
Pitch-Class Sets, Normal Order, and Transformations
Set Class and Prime Form
Interval-Class Vectors
Analyzing with Set Theory (or not!)
Mark Gotham and Megan Lavengood
Diatonic Modes
Collections
Mark Gotham; Megan Lavengood; Brian Moseley; and Kris Shaffer
Analyzing with Modes, Scales, and Collections
Basics of Twelve-Tone Theory
Mark Gotham and Brian Moseley
Naming Conventions for Rows
Row Properties
Analysis Examples - Webern Op. 21 and 24
Composing with Twelve Tones
History and Context of Serialism
Core Principles of Orchestration
Subtle Color Changes
Transcription from Piano
Notating Rhythm [crosslist]
Simple Meter and Time Signatures [crosslist]
Compound Meter and Time Signatures [crosslist]
Other Rhythmic Essentials [crosslist]
Hypermeter
Metrical Dissonance
Swing Rhythms [crosslist]
Rhythm and Meter in Pop Music [crosslist]
Drumbeats [crosslist]
Twentieth-Century Rhythmic Techniques [crosslist]
Harmony Anthology
Meter Anthology
Twelve-Tone Anthology
Digital Workbook
Kyle Gullings
PDF Workbook
The Basics of Sight-Singing and Dictation
Samuel Brady; Chelsey Hamm; and Kris Shaffer
Examples for Sight-counting and Sight-singing: Level 1
Levi Langolf
Examples for Sight-counting and Sight-singing: Level 2
Glossary
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