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Introduction to this "textbook" (for instructors & scholars).
Protonotation.
Meter and time signatures.
Pitches and octave designations.
Intervals and dyads.
Triads and seventh chords.
Types of contrapuntal motion.
Introduction to strict voice-leading.
Composing a cantus firmus.
Composing a first-species counterpoint.
Composing a second-species counterpoint.
Composing a third-species counterpoint.
Composing a fourth-species counterpoint.
Introduction to thoroughbass.
A brief history of basso continuo.
Composing in basso-continuo style.
Style and tendency.
Tendency tones and functional harmonic dissonances.
Realizing a figured bass in strict basso continuo style (video).
Melodic keyboard style voice-leading.
Melodic keyboard-style voice-leading schemata.
Realizing a figured bass line in melodic keyboard style (video).
Realizing an unfigured bass line (video).
Introduction to musical functions.
Harmonic functions.
Harmonic syntax - the idealized phrase.
Harmonic syntax - prolongation.
Classical cadence types.
Generating Roman numerals from a figured bass line.
Chromatically altered subdominant chords.
Applied chords.
Modal mixture.
Modulation.
Lead-sheet and figured-bass symbols.
Harmonies (Roman numerals and functional bass) by bass scale degree.
Thematic Structure in the Classical Style
Introduction to Thematic Structure in the Classical Style.
The sentence.
The period.
Hybrid themes.
Compound themes.
External Expansions.
Internal Expansions.
Sonata Form
Introduction to Sonata Theory.
Sonata form: exposition types.
- Structural Points of Arrival.
- Thematic Modules.
Sonata form: the recapitulation.
Sonata form: the development.
Rondo Form
Introduction to Rondo form.
Thematic Function in Rondo Form.
Five-Part Rondo.
Sonata Rondo.
Classical theme types.
Introduction to musical functions.
Galant schemata.
Basics
Pitch (class).
Interval (class).
Modular 12 arithmetic.
Organizing Forces
Collections and Scales.
Symmetry and Centricity.
Set Theory
Pitch-Class Sets.
Normal Order.
Tranposition.
Inversion.
Set Class and Prime Form (1).
Set Class and Prime Form (2).
Complements.
Common Tones under Transposition.
Common Tones under Inversion.
Tranpositional Symmetry.
Twelve-Tone Theory
Basics.
Operations.
Intervallic Structure.
Derivation.
Invariance.
Analyzing atonal music.
Analyzing 12-tone music.
Glossary of atonal musical terms.
Sheet of blank chromatic-scale clock faces.
Uploading and sharing a file via Google Drive.
Typesetting a keyboard-style voice-leading exercise.
Using Variations Audio Timeliner.
Adding a creative commons license to a blog post.
Posting a blog link to Twitter.
Creating a musical graphic and importing it into a text document.
Melodic sequentials.
Harmonic sequentials.
Chromatic solfège syllables and sequentials.
Sight-singing tips.
Transcribing syncopation in pop/rock music.
Melodic dictation demo.