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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rhythm and Pitch | |
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| Hints for Practicing | |
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| Conducting | |
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| Tempo Markings | |
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| Fundamental Rhythm Patterns | |
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| Simple Meter | |
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| Simple and Compound Meters | |
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| Time Signatures for Simple Meters | |
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| Simple Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Quadruple meter | |
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| Half rest | |
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| Tie | |
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| Note endings | |
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| Duple meter | |
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| Triple meter | |
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| Augmentaion dot | |
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| Whole note and whole-note rest | |
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| Beaming | |
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| Common time | |
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| Whole-measure rest | |
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| Meter changes | |
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| Composite meters | |
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| Conducting in 5/4 (2+3) | |
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| Conducting in 5/4 (3+2) | |
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| Conducting in 7/4 | |
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| Canon | |
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| Hocket | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Recommended Listening | |
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| Compound Meter | |
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| Time Signatures for Compound Meters | |
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| Compound Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Dotted Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| One beat per measure | |
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| Beaming over rests | |
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| The % sign | |
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| Retrograde canon | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Recommended Listening | |
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| Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Anacrusis | |
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| Multi-measure rests | |
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| Inverted dotting | |
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| Double dotting | |
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| Measured tremolo | |
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| Augmentation canon | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Compound Meter: Dotted Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| One beat per measure | |
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| Measured tremolo | |
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| Split measures | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat | |
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| Equivalent Cells | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Double whole note; double whole rest | |
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| Alla breve | |
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| Hypermeter | |
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| Diminution canon | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Compound Meter: Dotted Half-Note Beat | |
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| Equivalent Cells | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Hypermeter | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Simple Meter: Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Equivalent Cells | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Compound Meter: Dotted Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Equivalent Cells | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Irregular Division of the Beat | |
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| Simple Meter: All Beat Values | |
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| Introduction to Irregular Division of the Beat | |
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| Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Triplets | |
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| Quintuplets | |
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| Sextuplets | |
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| Septuplets | |
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| Irregular division with measured tremolo | |
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| Half-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Compound Meter: All Beat Values | |
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| Irregular Division of the Beat in Compound Meter | |
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| Dotted Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Duplets | |
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| Quadruplets | |
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| Quintuplets | |
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| Septuplets | |
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| Dotted Half-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Dotted Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Syncopation | |
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| Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Introduction to Syncopation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Cross rhythms: superduplet | |
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| Supertriplet | |
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| Less common cross rhythms | |
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| "Four against three" | |
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| "Three against four" | |
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| "Two against five" | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Recommended Listening | |
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| Compound Meter: All Beat Values | |
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| Dotted Quarter-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Hemiola | |
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| Dotted Half-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Dotted Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat; Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Half-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Eighth-Note Beat | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Excerpts from Music Literature | |
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| Excerpts in Traditional Meters | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Rhythmic alteration in Baroque music | |
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| More Challenging Excerpts in Traditional Meters | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Excerpts in Nontraditional Meters | |
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| Composite Meter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Double Meter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Unusual Beat Units | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Longa | |
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| Metric Modulation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Polymetric Music | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Ametric Music | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Self-Test on Written Concepts | |
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| Special Rhythmic Symbols in Twentieth-Century Music | |
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| Rhythm Cells | |
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| Simple Meter | |
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| Compound Meter | |
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| Recommended Speech Cues | |
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| Simple Meter | |
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| Compound Meter | |
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| Glossary of Musical Terms | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |