Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music

by Benjamin, Thomas; Horvit, Michael; Nelson, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780534526238
• ISBN10: 0534526233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-17
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This book is designed to be the primary text for the first two years of college music theory. It covers all the basics of composition including harmony, melody, and musical form.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Suggestions to the Instructor	xi
Part I Rudiments	3	(28)
1 The Great Staff and Piano Keyboard	3	(1)
2 Accidentals	4	(2)
3 Intervals	6	(7)
4 Major and Minor Scales	13	(2)
5 Key Signatures	15	(2)
6 Meter and Rhythm	17	(14)
Part II Diatonic Materials	31	(94)
1 Triads in Root Position	31	(4)
2 The Tonic Triad in Root Position	35	(3)
3 Connection of Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position	38	(5)
4 The Dominant Seventh Chord in Root Position	43	(6)
5 Connection of Tonic and Subdominant Triads in Root Position	49	(1)
6 Connection of Subdominant and Dominant Triads in Root Position	50	(3)
7 Cadences Employing the Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in Root Position	53	(2)
8 The Cadential Tonic Six-Four Chord	55	(4)
9 Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in First Inversion	59	(9)
10 The Supertonic Triad	68	(6)
11 Inversions of the Dominant Seventh Chord	74	(7)
12 Linear (Embellishing) Six-Four and Other Chords	81	(4)
13 Submediant and Mediant Triads in Root Position and First Inversion	85	(6)
14 The Leading Tone Triad	91	(4)
15 Variant Qualities of Triads	95	(8)
16 The Sequence	103	(5)
17 The Supertonic Seventh Chord	108	(5)
18 The Leading Tone Seventh Chord	113	(6)
19 Other Diatonic Seventh Chords	119	(6)
Part III Chromatic Materials	125	(66)
1 Secondary (Applied, Borrowed) Dominants	125	(7)
2 Modulation	132	(7)
3 Linear (Embellishing) Diminished Seventh Chords	139	(6)
4 The Neapolitan Triad	145	(5)
5 Augmented Sixth Chords	150	(7)
6 Modulation by Other Means	157	(4)
7 Ninth Chords	161	(30)
Part IV Twentieth-Century Materials	191	(18)
1 Twentieth-Century Techniques: General Comments	167	(2)
2 Further Concepts for Analysis	169	(3)
3 Rhythmic and Metric Devices	172	(4)
4 Tertian Harmony	176	(5)
5 The Diatonic (Church) Modes	181	(3)
6 Exotic (Artificial, Synthetic) Scales	184	(4)
7 Pandiatonicism	188	(3)
8 Quartal and Secondal Harmony	191	(3)
9 Polyharmony and Polytonality	194	(4)
10 Intervals in Twentieth-Century Music	198	(2)
11 Twelve-Tone Serialism	200	(5)
12 Additional Contemporary Procedures	205	(4)
Part V Reference Materials	209	(68)
1 Musical Calligraphy	209	(2)
2 The Overtone Series	211	(1)
3 Nonharmonic (Nonchord) Tones	212	(2)
4 Relative and Linear Motion	214	(1)
5 Guidelines for Voice Leading in Strict Four-Part Writing	215	(2)
6 Guidelines for Doubling in Strict Four-Part Writing	217	(1)
7 Checklist for Part-Writing	218	(1)
8 Chord Functions in Tonal Music	219	(2)
9 Figured-Bass Symbols	221	(2)
10 Procedure for Harmonizing a Figured Bass	223	(2)
11 Procedure for Harmonizing a Melody	225	(4)
12 Models for Expansion and Elaboration	229	(2)
13 Cadence and Phrase Structure	231	(1)
14 Typical Phrase Variants	232	(2)
15 The Motive	234	(6)
16 The Sequence	240	(4)
17 Textures	244	(4)
18 An Introduction to Tonal Melody	248	(5)
19 An Introduction to Tonal Counterpoint	253	(8)
20 Form	261	(7)
21 Checklist for Analysis	268	(5)
22 Composition Checklist	273	(2)
23 Instrumental Ranges and Transpositions	275	(2)
Bibliography	277	(2)
Index	279