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Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals
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Other Aspects of Notation
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Rhythmic and Rest Values
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Simple Meter and Time Signatures
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Other Rhythmic Essentials
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The Basics of Sight-Singing and Dictation
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Intervals
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Inversion and Figured Bass
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Roman Numerals and SATB Chord Construction
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Texture
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Sonata Form
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Strengthening Endings with V7
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Embellishing Tones
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Row Properties
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Composing with Twelve Tones
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Core Principles of Orchestration
Subtle Color Changes
Transcription from Piano
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Intervallic Structure in Twelve-Tone Rows
Row Operations
Invariance
Analyzing Twelve-Tone Music
Symmetry and Centricity
Complements
Common Tones under Transposition
Melodic-harmonic divorce
Analyzing a post-tonal piece from scratch
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Vocal Music: Song Forms
Rhythmic Cycles
Introduction to thoroughbass
A brief history of basso continuo keyboard-style voice-leading
Composing in basso-continuo style
Style and tendency
Tendency tones and functional harmonic dissonances
Melodic keyboard-style voice-leading
Keyboard-style voice-leading schemas
Embellishing tones
Generating Roman numerals from a figured bass line
Galant Schemas – continuation patterns
Style Guide
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Navigating HTML
Twentieth-Century Rhythmic Techniques
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Mediants
Examples for Sight-counting and Sight-singing: Level 1
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Examples for Sight-counting and Sight-singing: Level 2
Hypermeter
Metrical Dissonance
Chromatically altered subdominant chords
Applied chords
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Glossary
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