Contiene : Apéndice, DVD

This disc contains recordings MP3 format and notation image files TIFF format for the inductive listening exercises. Audio recordings are also provided for the contextual listening exercises.

Part I Element of music Pitch and pitch class. Simple meter. Pitch collections, scales and major keys. Compound meter. Minor keys and the diatonic modes. Intervals. Triads. Seventh chords. Connecting intervals in note-to-note counterpoint. Melodic and rhythmic embellishment in two-voice composition.

Part II. Diatonic harmony and tonicization Soprano and bass lines in eighteenth-century style. The basic phrase in SABT style. Dominant sevenths, the predominant area, and melody harmonization. Expanding the tonic and dominant areas.Diatonic harmonies and root progressions. Embellishing tones un four voices. The vii°⁶, vii°⁷, viiø⁷, and other vouce-leading chords. Phrase structure and motivie analysis. Diatonic sequences. Secondary dominants and leading-tone chords to V. Tonicizing scale degrees other tan.

Part III Chromatic harmony and form Modulation to closely related keys. Binary and ternary forms. Invention, fugue, and other contrapuntual genres. Modal Mixture. The neapolitan sicth and augmented-sicth chords. Vocal forms. Popular music. Chromatic harmony and voice -leading. Chromatic modulation. VAriation and rondo. Sonata and related forms.

Part IV. The twentieth century amd beyond. Modes, scales, and sets. Music analysis with sets. Sets and sets classes. Ordered segments and serialism. Twelve-tone rows and the row matrix. New ways to organise rhythm, meter, and duration. New ways to articulate musical form.Recented trends.

Comopistion 1-17 Rhythm. Mojar-key melody. Melody in minor keys and the diatonic modes. Two-voice counterpoint. Vocal melodies. Phrases in two-voice counterpoint. Two-phrase choral piece. Phrase pairs for keyboard. Vocal melodies / Keyboard-style compositions. Trio. Vocal melodies / keyboard-style compositions form Roman numerals or figured bass. Minuet. Sonata-from movement. Modes and scales. Pitch-class sets. -twelve-tone and serial piece. Rhythms.

Ear-training and composition, develops listening and writing skills in assignments that you may complete outside of class. Corresponding chapter by chapter to The musician's guide to theory and analysis, the ear-training is divided into two activities: introductive listening short, preparatory model dictations that you can selfcheck and contextual listening dictations from music literature carefully selected to emphasize a chapter's concepts. all dictations are included on the accompanying recordings DVD. A final section, composition, guides you from the very beginning through individual and group compositions in a variety of styles