Description: NOTE: Only available as book with CD package. 1. Basics I: Pitch on the Staff and the Keyboard; Scales; Key Signatures. 2. Basics II: Intervals; Chords; Staff Notation. 3. Basics III: Duration, Time Signatures. 4. Tonic and Dominant I: Cadences. 5. Tonic and Dominant II: Part-Writing. 6. The Subdominant Triad. 7. The Melodic Line I. 8. C Clefs; Transposing Instruments. 9. The Triad in Inversion. 10. Harmonic Progression; The Leading Tone Triad and the Supertonic Triad. 11. Nonharmonic Tones I: Passing Tones and Neighbor Tones. 12. Nonharmonic Tones II: Suspensions and Other Dissonance's. 13. The Dominant Seventh and Supertonic Seventh Chords. 14. The Submediant and Mediant Triads. 15. The Melodic Line II: Form, continued; Melody Harmonization; Melody Writing. 16. The v and VII Triads; the Phrygian Cadence. 17. Harmonic Sequence. 18. Secondary Dominant Chords; Elementary Modulation. Appendix 1. The Essentials of Part-Writing: Conventional Procedures. Appendix 2. Instrumentation: Ranges, Clefs, Transposition. Appendix 3. Elementary Acoustics. Appendix 4. The Medieval Modes. Appendix 5. Answer Key. Index of Compositions. Subject Index.

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