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 Scales
60 Other Minor Scales
7. Key Signatures for Minor Keys
8. 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 Key
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. Texture, Structures, Techniques, and Form
1. The Textures of Music
2. Fundamental Structures
3. Melodic Manipulation
4. Form
Part 6. Appendices
Appendix I. Systems for Identifying Pitch
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
Appendix XI. Chord Symbols Used in Lead Sheet and Fake Book Notation in Two Clefs
Biography
Alfred Blatter joined the faculty for Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1989 and is Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.
