Inquiry-Based Music Theory OER Text Book

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Table of Contents

1) Pitches and Clefs

2) Intervals, Scales, and Keys

3) Triads, Seventh Chords, and Leadsheet Notation

4) Rhythm and Regular Meters

5) Counterpoint and Embellishing Shapes

6) Introduction to Harmonic Analysis

7) Harmonic Function

8) The Overtone Series

9) Non-Chord Tones

10) An Introduction to Part-writing

11) Practical Part-writing

12) Instrument Transpositions, Ranges, and Score Reduction

13) Phrasing and Texture

14) Secondary Dominant Functions

15) Further Secondary Functions

16) An Introduction to Modulation

17) Mode Mixture

18) Chromatic Chords

19) Extended Tertian Harmony

20) Advanced Chromatic Techniques

21) Beyond Simple and Compound Meters

22) An Introduction to Non-Diatonic Materials

23) An Introduction to Post-Tonal Analysis

Assignments

Final Project Notes and Discussion