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Subtitle: Beginning to Advanced Concepts for the Creative Musician
Author: Elliott Miles McKinley
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Forward: What this book is, and what it is not
Dedication
1. Introduction to Species Counterpoint
2. Counterpoint: First Species
3. Counterpoint: Second Species
4. Counterpoint: Fourth Species
5. Gradus ad Parnassum
Mark Gotham
6. Introduction to Four-Part Harmony and Voice Leading
7. Voice-Leading I: Common-Tone Chords in the Major Mode
8. Chord Inversions (Triads)
9. Harmonic Dissonance I: The Diminished Triad
10. Harmonic Dissonance II: The Seventh Chord
11. The Minor Mode I: Introduction and Characteristics
12. The Minor Mode II: Voice Leading with Seventh Chords and Inversions
13. Voice Leading II: Chords with No Common Tones and Freer Treatment of Dissonance
14. Harmonic Direction I: Tonal Functions and the Chord Progression
15. Harmonic Direction II: Tonality and Cadences
16. Tonal Modulation I: Up/Down to Adjacent Keys on the Circle of Fifths
17. Chord Borrowing I: The Secondary Dominant
18. Chord Borrowing II: Chromatic Voice Leading and Other Borrowed Chords
19. Introduction to Western Musical Notation
Chelsey Hamm
20. Notation of Notes, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
21. Reading Clefs
22. The Keyboard and the Grand Staff
23. Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals
24. American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN)
Chelsey Hamm and Bryn Hughes
25. Other Aspects of Notation
Chelsey Hamm and Mark Gotham
26. Rhythmic and Rest Values
Chelsey Hamm; Mark Gotham; and Bryn Hughes
27. Simple Meter and Time Signatures
Chelsey Hamm; Kris Shaffer; and Mark Gotham
28. Compound Meter and Time Signatures
29. Other Rhythmic Essentials
Bryn Hughes; Mark Gotham; and Chelsey Hamm
30. Major Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
31. Minor Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
32. The Basics of Sight-Singing and Dictation
Kris Shaffer; Chelsey Hamm; and Samuel Brady
33. Intervals
34. Triads
35. Seventh Chords
36. Inversion and Figured Bass
Chelsey Hamm and Samuel Brady
37. Roman Numerals and SATB Chord Construction
Samuel Brady and Kris Shaffer
38. Texture
Samuel Brady and Mark Gotham
39. House Rules, Guidelines and Gameplay
40. Strat-O-Matic Rulebook and Guide
Glossary
Composing Music: From Theory to Practice Copyright © 2023 by Elliott Miles McKinley. All Rights Reserved.
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