Revisiting Music Theory

Alfred Blatter joined the faculty for Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1989 and is Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Use of This Book

Part 1. Notation: The Symbols of Music

1. The Components of Sound and Music

2. The Notation of Pitch

3. The Notation of Duration

4. The Organization of Time

5. Movement, Language, and Musical Rhythms

6. The Notation of Loudness and Style

7. The Notation of Tone Quality

8. Conducting Music

Part 2. Melody: Note Following Note

1. Intervals

2. The Modes

3. The Major Scale

4. Key Signatures for Major Scales

5. The Minor Scales

60 Other Minor Scales

7. Key Signatures for Minor Keys

8. Scale Degrees

9. The Melodic Structure

10. Expanded Melodic Sources

Part 3. Harmony: Note(s) with Note(s)

1. Intervals

2. Triads

3. The Inversion of Triads

4. Triads within Key

5. Seventh Chords

6. Harmonic Progressions

7. Harmonic Rhythm

8. Cadences

9. Secondary Dominants

10. More Chords on the Secondary Level

11. Other Chords

Part 4. Melodies in Harmony

1. Part Writing

2. Creating the Harmonic Structure

3. Non-Harmonic Tones

4. Analyzing Later Styles

5. Nineteenth-Century Analysis

Part 5. Texture, Structures, Techniques, and Form

1. The Textures of Music

2. Fundamental Structures

3. Melodic Manipulation

4. Form

Part 6. Appendices

Appendix I. Systems for Identifying Pitch

Appendix II. The Harmonic Series

Appendix III. Tuning and Temperament

Appendix IV. The Circle of Fifths

Appendix V. Transposition

Appendix VI. All Major Scales in Four Clefs

Appendix VII. All Minor Scales in Four Clefs

Appendix VIII. Inversions of All Triads on All Pitches in Two Clefs

Appendix IX. Inversions of All Common Seventh Chords on All Pitches in Two Clefs

Appendix X. Primary Chords in All Major and Minor Keys in Two Clefs

Appendix XI. Chord Symbols Used in Lead Sheet and Fake Book Notation in Two Clefs