Preface | p. ix |
Use of the Computer | p. xvi |
Computer-Assisted Instruction: Contents and Log | p. xxii |
Introduction | p. xxxii |
Sound | p. 1 |
Pitch and Timbre; The Overtone Series | p. 1 |
Dynamics | p. 3 |
Computer Exercise | p. 5 |
The Envelope; Articulations | p. 6 |
Music for Study | p. 8 |
Computer Exercise | p. 11 |
Exploring Sound at the Computer | p. 11 |
The Notational System | p. 12 |
Music in Western Culture | p. 12 |
Written Music | p. 13 |
Music--A Temporal Art | p. 13 |
Notes and Rests | p. 14 |
Computer Exercise | p. 17 |
Written Exercises | p. 17 |
Letter-Names for Pitches | p. 20 |
Computer Exercise | p. 24 |
Registers of the Piano | p. 24 |
Computer Exercise | p. 25 |
Written Exercises | p. 25 |
Notation at the Computer | p. 26 |
Simple Meter | p. 28 |
Suggested Listening | p. 28 |
The Beat | p. 28 |
The Organization of Music into Meters | p. 29 |
Computer Exercise | p. 31 |
Written Exercises | p. 32 |
Rhythm in Performance | p. 33 |
Computer Exercise | p. 34 |
Counting Time in Simple Meters | p. 34 |
Computer Exercise | p. 36 |
Music for Study | p. 36 |
Music for Study: Counting with Rests | p. 40 |
The Use of Beams | p. 42 |
Written Exercises | p. 43 |
Computer Exercise | p. 46 |
Creating Rhythms at the Computer | p. 46 |
Scales | p. 47 |
Half Steps and Whole Steps | p. 47 |
Computer Exercise | p. 48 |
Computer Exercise | p. 52 |
Computer Exercise | p. 54 |
Written Exercises | p. 54 |
The Major Scale | p. 55 |
Computer Exercise | p. 58 |
Written Exercises | p. 59 |
Key Signatures for Major Keys | p. 60 |
Computer Exercise | p. 64 |
Written Exercises | p. 64 |
Intervals in the Major Scale | p. 65 |
Names of the Scale Degrees | p. 67 |
Music for Study | p. 68 |
Compound Meter | p. 73 |
Suggested Listening | p. 73 |
Computer Exercise | p. 77 |
Written Exercises | p. 77 |
Music for Study: Counting Compound Meter | p. 78 |
Classification of Meters | p. 82 |
Written Exercises | p. 84 |
More on the Use of Beams | p. 88 |
Written Exercises | p. 89 |
Written Exercises | p. 91 |
Establishing Meter Through Accents and Patterns | p. 92 |
Music for Study | p. 92 |
Exploring Rhythm and Meter at the Computer | p. 98 |
Written Exercises | p. 101 |
Computer Exercise | p. 107 |
Creating Rhythms at the Computer | p. 107 |
The Minor Mode | p. 108 |
Suggested Listening | p. 108 |
Use of Accidentals in the Minor Mode | p. 111 |
Computer Exercise | p. 112 |
Written Exercises | p. 112 |
Intervals in the Minor Mode | p. 115 |
Relative and Parallel Minors | p. 115 |
Computer Exercise | p. 117 |
Written Exercises | p. 118 |
Music for Study | p. 121 |
Modulation | p. 125 |
The Chromatic Scale | p. 126 |
Written Exercises | p. 127 |
Music for Study | p. 128 |
Other Scales | p. 132 |
Modes | p. 132 |
Suggested Listening | p. 136 |
Pentatonic Scale | p. 138 |
Computer Exercise | p. 140 |
Exploring Other Scales at the Computer | p. 140 |
More on Rhythm and Meter | p. 141 |
Syncopation | p. 141 |
Exploring Syncopation at the Computer | p. 142 |
Computer Exercise | p. 149 |
Rhythm in Jazz and Popular Music | p. 149 |
Music for Study | p. 150 |
Intervals | p. 154 |
Seconds | p. 155 |
Exercises | p. 155 |
Thirds | p. 156 |
Computer Exercise | p. 156 |
Written Exercises | p. 157 |
The Perfect Intervals | p. 157 |
Written Exercises | p. 159 |
Sixths and Sevenths | p. 160 |
Inversion of Intervals | p. 160 |
Computer Exercise | p. 162 |
Written Exercises | p. 162 |
Compound Intervals | p. 163 |
Computer Exercise | p. 164 |
Alteration of Intervals | p. 164 |
Other Properties of Intervals | p. 165 |
Computer Exercise | p. 167 |
Written Exercises | p. 167 |
Music for Study | p. 167 |
Chords and Harmony | p. 174 |
Triads | p. 175 |
Computer Exercise | p. 176 |
Written Exercises | p. 176 |
The Dominant Seventh Chord | p. 178 |
Computer Exercise | p. 178 |
Written Exercises | p. 179 |
Music for Study | p. 179 |
Texture and Inversions | p. 180 |
Written Exercises | p. 183 |
Computer Exercise | p. 184 |
Written Exercises | p. 184 |
The Primary Triads | p. 186 |
Nonchord Tones | p. 187 |
Exercise | p. 190 |
Simple forms | p. 194 |
Phrases and Cadences | p. 194 |
Music for Study | p. 198 |
Phrase Relationships | p. 199 |
Song Forms | p. 199 |
Examples for the Study of Form | p. 200 |
Form in Popular Music | p. 205 |
Harmonizing Melodies | p. 207 |
Creative Exercises | p. 209 |
Melodic Composition at the Computer | p. 210 |
Looking at Music | p. 211 |
What to Look for in a Score | p. 211 |
Computer Exercise | p. 213 |
Exercises for Practice in Reading Music | p. 214 |
Topics for Enrichment and Further Study | p. 233 |
World Music and Roots Music | p. 234 |
Synthetic Scales | p. 242 |
Computer Exercise | p. 248 |
Exploring Other Scales at the Computer | p. 248 |
Other Chords: Seventh Chords | p. 248 |
Computer Exercise | p. 249 |
Other Chords: Borrowed Chords | p. 249 |
Exercises | p. 251 |
Other Chords: Sixth Chords | p. 252 |
Exercise | p. 254 |
Looking at Music | p. 256 |
Creative Exercises | p. 258 |
Standard Chord Progressions | p. 264 |
Roman Numeral Chord Designations | p. 267 |
Glossary | p. 269 |
Indexes | p. 273 |
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |