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Author Blatter, Alfred

Title Revisiting Music Theory : Basic Principles
Edition 2nd ed
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (393 pages)
Contents Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Use of This Book; part 1: Notation: The Symbols of Music; 1. The Components of Sound and Music; 2. The Notation of Pitch; 3. The Notation of Duration; 4. The Organization of Time; 5. Movement, Language, and Musical Rhythms; 6. The Notation of Loudness and Style; 7. The Notation of Tone Quality; 8. Conducting Music; part 2: Melody: Note Following Note; 1. Intervals; 2. The Modes; 3. The Major Scale; 4. Key Signatures for Major Scales; 5. The Minor Scale; 6. Other Minor Scales
7. Key Signatures for Minor Keys8. Scale Degrees; 9. The Melodic Structure; 10. Expanded Melodic Sources; part 3: Harmony: Note(s) with Note(s); 1. Intervals; 2. Triads; 3. The Inversion of Triads; 4. Triads within Keys; 5. Seventh Chords; 6. Harmonic Progressions; 7. Harmonic Rhythm; 8. Cadences; 9. Secondary Dominants; 10. More Chords on the Secondary Level; 11. Other Chords; part 4: Melodies in Harmony; 1. Part Writing; 2. Creating the Harmonic Structure; 3. Non-Harmonic Tones; 4. Analyzing Later Styles; 5. Nineteenth-Century Analysis; part 5: Textures, Structures, Techniques, and Forms
1. The Textures of Music2. Fundamental Structures; 3. Melodic Manipulation; 4. Form; part 6: Appendices; Appendix I Systems for Identifying Pitches; Appendix II The Harmonic Series; Appendix III Tuning and Temperament; Appendix IV The Circle of Fifths; Appendix V Transposition; Appendix VI All Major Scales in Four Clefs; Appendix VII All Minor Scales in Four Clefs; Appendix VIII Inversions of All Triads on All Pitches in Two Clefs; Appendix IX Inversions of All Common Seventh Chords on All Pitches in Two Clefs; Appendix X Primary Chords in All Major and Minor Keys in Two Clefs
Notes Appendix XI Chord Symbols Used in Lead Sheet and Fake Book Notation in Two ClefsIndex
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ISBN 9781317425748
131742574X