Innehåller index

Introduction: The fundamentals of music. Pitch, notation and intervals ; Rhythm and meter ; Tonality: scales and keys ; The rudiments of harmony I: triads and seventh chords ; The rudiments of harmony II: labeling chords; Musical texture ; Introduction to species counterpoint -- Diatonic harmony. The connection of chords ; The tonic and dominant triads in root position ; Harmonic function; The subdominant triad in root position ; Triads in first inversion ; The supertonic; Melody harmonization ; Nonchord tones ; 6/4 chords ; The dominant seventh ; The leading-tone triad ; Cadences ; Melodic organization I: phrase structure ; Melodic organization II: thematic development, phrase extension ; Harmonic rhythm; Metric reduction ; The mediant, submediant, and subtonic triads ; Other diatonic seventh chords ; Harmonic sequences -- Chromatic harmony and form. Secondary dominants I ; Secondary dominants II ; Secondary leading-tone chords ; Modulation to closely related keys ; Small forms: Binary and ternary; Variation forms ; Contrapuntal genres ; Modal mixture ; The neapolitan chord ; Augmented sixth chords ; Chromatic modulatory techniques: modulation to distantly related keys I ; Modulation to distantly related keys II; Linear chromaticism I ; Introduction to large forms ; Expanding functional tonality; Extended tertian chords; Linear chromaticism II ; The German Romantic Lied: chromatic harmony in context ; Toward (and beyond) the limits of functional tonality