Table of Contents
*new to the Fifth Edition
Part I: Elements of Music
Chapter 1: Pitch and Pitch Class
Chapter 2: Simple Meters
Chapter 3: Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys
Chapter 4: Compound Meters
Chapter 5: Minor Keys and the Diatonic Modes
Chapter 6: Intervals
Chapter 7: Triads
Chapter 8: Seventh Chords
Chapter 9: Connecting Intervals in Two-Part Counterpoint
*Chapter 10: World and Traditional Musics I
Part II: Practices of Western Tonal Harmony
Chapter 11: From Species to Chorale Style
Chapter 12: The Basic Phrase
Chapter 13: V7 and Predominants
Chapter 14: Expanding the Basic Phrase
Chapter 15: New Cadence Types and Diatonic Root Progressions
Chapter 16: Embellishing Tones
Chapter 17: Leading-Tone and Other Voice-Leading Chords
Chapter 18: Phrase Structure and Motivic Analysis
Chapter 19: Secondary Dominant and Leading-Tone Chords to V
Chapter 20: Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than V
Chapter 21: Sequences
Part III: Chromatic Harmony and Form
Chapter 22: Modulation
Chapter 23: Binary and Ternary Forms
Chapter 24: Invention and Fugue
Chapter 25: Variation
Chapter 26: Modal Mixture and Chromatic Mediants
Chapter 27: Neapolitan Sixth and Augmented-Sixth Chords
Chapter 28: Chromatic Harmony and Voice Leading
Chapter 29: Vocal Forms
Chapter 30: Sonata, Sonatina, and Concerto
Chapter 31: Rondo, Sonata-Rondo, and Large Ternary
Part IV: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Chapter 32: Popular Music, Jazz, and Blues
Chapter 33: Recent Popular Music
Chapter 34: Modes, Scales, and Sets
Chapter 35: Rhythm, Meter, and Form in Music after 1900
Chapter 36: Music Analysis with Sets
Chapter 37: Ordered Segments and Serialism
Chapter 38: Rhythm, Meter, and Form after 1945
*Chapter 39: World and Traditional Musics II
Chapter 40: Recent Trends
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