Table of Contents

Preface
A Message to the Student: Why Do We Study Music Theory?


Introduction: The Fundamentals of Music
Chapter A Pitch: Notation and Intervals
Chapter B Rhythm and Meter
Chapter C Tonality: Scales and Keys
Chapter D The Rudiments of Harmony I: Triads and Seventh Chords
Chapter E The Rudiments of Harmony II: Labeling Chords. Musical Texture
Chapter F Introduction to Species Counterpoint


Part I: Diatonic Harmony
Chapter 1  Harmonic Progression.  The Connection of Chords
Chapter 2 The Fundamental Progression:  The Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position. 
Chapter 3 Harmonic Function; the Subdominant Triad in Root Position
Chapter 4 Triads in First Inversion
Chapter 5 The Supertonic: Melody Harmonization
Chapter 6 Nonchord Tones
Chapter 7 6/4 Chords
Chapter 8 The Dominant Seventh and Its Inversions
Chapter 9 The Leading-Tone Triad
Chapter 10  Cadences
Chapter 11  Building the Context for Harmony I: Phrase Structure
Chapter 12  Building the Context for Harmony II: Thematic Development
Chapter 13  Harmonic Rhythm; Metric Reduction
Chapter 14  The Mediant, Submediant, and Subtonic Triads
Chapter 15  Other Diatonic Seventh Chords
Chapter 16  Harmonic Sequences


Part II: Chromatic Harmony and Form
Chapter 17  Tonicization I
Chapter 18  Tonicization II
Chapter 19  Tonicization III: Secondary Leading-Tone Chords
Chapter 20  Modulation to Closely-Related Keys
Chapter 21  Small Forms: Binary and Ternary; Variation Forms
Chapter 22  Contrapuntal Genres: Invention and Fugue
Chapter 23  Modal Mixture
Chapter 24  The Neapolitan Chord
Chapter 25  Augmented Sixth Chords
Chapter 26  Chromatic Modulatory Techniques:Modulation to Distantly Related Keys I
Chapter 27  Modulation to Distantly-Related Keys II; Linear Chromaticism I
Chapter 28  Introduction to Large Forms
Chapter 29  Expanding Functional Tonality: Extended Tertian Chords; Linear Chromaticism II;
Chapter 30  The German Romantic Lied: Chromatic Harmony in Context
Chapter 31  Toward (and Beyond) the Limits of Functional Tonality


Appendix: Transposing Instruments


Musical Example Index
Subject Index