Table of Contents

Introduction

Index of Musical Examples (by Composer/Performer)

Index of Musical Examples (by Date)

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

Workbook (Rhythm)

4. Pitch and Interval

Workbook (Pitch)

5. Scales, Modes, and Keys

Workbook (Scales)

6. Lead Sheet Notation and Tertian Harmony

Workbook (Lead sheet)

7. Figured Bass

Workbook (Figured Bass)

8. Scale-Degrees and Roman Numerals

Workbook (Scale Degrees)

9. Non-Chord Tones

Workbook (NCTs)

Theory 2

10. Motivic and Thematic Transformations

Workbook (Motive 1)

Principle 3: Music generates implications, which may or may not be realized. These implications arise from both innate and learned processes.

11. Motivic Perceptions

Workbook (Motive 2)

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

Workbook (Contour)

Workbook (Dissonance)

14. Diatonic Scale-Degree Function and Tonal Tension

Workbook (Tonal Tension)

15. Rhythm, Meter, and Tempo

Workbook (Rhythm)

Workbook (Cadence 1)

17. Cadence 2: Evasion and Elision

Workbook (Cadence 2)

Theory 3

18. Chromatic Scale-Degrees and Mode Mixture

Workbook (Mode Mixture)

19. Tonicization

Workbook (Tonicization)

20. Remote Chords

Workbook (Remote Chords)

21. Modulation and Tonal Tension

Workbook (Modulation)

22. Voice Motion and Voice Leading

Workbook (Voice Motion)

Workbook (Texture)

Principle 5: Music is hierarchically structured.

24. Formal Hierarchy

Workbook (Formal Hierarchy)

Theory 4

25. Emotional Peaks

Workbook (Emotion)

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

Workbook (Large Scale Form)