Music Theory

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This text is primarily designed to serve as a textbook for a college-level music theory fundamentals course. However, it also has the flexibility to serve equally well for a typical core curriculum college-level Music Theory I or Harmony I course. Our goal is to deliver sufficient information to enable the student to be able to evaluate and analyze select music from the literature as quickly as is practical.

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Subjects
Humanities, Music
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Unit 1: The Elements of Rhythm- Sound, Symbol, and Time
  7. 1.1: Durational Values- Symbols Representing Time in Music
  8. 1.2: Pulse, Tempo, and Meter
  9. 1.3: Music Notation Practices
  10. 1.4: Additional Information
  11. 1.5: Summary
  12. Unit 2: The Elements of Pitch-Sound, Symbol, and Tone
  13. 2.1: Pitch and Pitch-Class
  14. 2.2: Chromatic Alteration- Accidentals
  15. 2.3: The Keyboard as a Visual Tool
  16. 2.4: Register Designation, The Octave, 8va, and 8vb
  17. 2.5: Pitch Notation- Nomenclature and Solfége
  18. 2.6: Moveable C-Clef; Other Clefs
  19. 2.7: Summary
  20. Unit 3: The Foundations Scale-Steps and Scales
  21. 3.1: Scales and Scale-Steps
  22. 3.2: Heptatonic Scales- The Major Scale, The Three Forms of the Minor Scale
  23. 3.3: Solfége Revisited
  24. 3.4: Heptatonic Scales- Introduction to Modes
  25. 3.5: Other Commonly Used Scales
  26. 3.6: Summary
  27. Back Matter
  28. Detailed Licensing