Introduction
Theory 1
Principle 1: Music analysis can model composition, performance, and/or perception. Further, it may describe what composers, performers, and listeners do or prescribe what composers, performers, and listeners could/should do. Compositional and performative processes are not the same as perceptual experience.
Principle 2: Music consists of parameters that determine its structure, style, and emotional impact.
1. The Parameters of Music
2. Musical Notation
Workbook (Notation)
3. Rhythm and Meter
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4. Pitch and Interval
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5. Scales, Modes, and Keys
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6. Lead Sheet Notation and Tertian Harmony
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7. Figured Bass
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8. Scale-Degrees and Roman Numerals
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9. Non-Chord Tones
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Theory 2
10. Motivic and Thematic Transformations
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Principle 3: Music generates implications, which may or may not be realized. These implications arise from both innate and learned processes.
11. Motivic Perceptions
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Principle 4: All parameters can be scaled, representing the degree to which each is open or closed and hence to what degree each is contributing to tension and closure.
12. Contour and Dynamics
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13. Dissonance
Chapter 13 Workbook
14. Diatonic Scale-Degree Function and Tonal Tension
Workbook (Tonal Tension)
15. Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo
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16. Cadence 1
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17. Cadence 2: Evasion and Elision
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Theory 3
18. Chromatic Scale-Degrees and Mode Mixture
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19. Tonicization
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20. Remote Chords
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21. Modulation and Tonal Tension
Chapter 21 Workbook
22. Voice Motion and Voice Leading
Chapter 22 Workbook
23. Texture
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Principle 5: Music is hierarchically structured.
24. Formal Hierarchy
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Theory 4
25. Emotional Peaks
Chapter 25 Workbook
Principle 6: Any musical tradition relies on style structures, commonly recurring patterns that composers and performers utilize both consciously and unconsciously.
26. Phrase Schemata
27. Large-Scale Forms
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