Mastery of Music Theory

Chapter 1: Pitch
Chapter 2: Notation of Rhythm
Chapter 3: More on Rhythm -
Sixteenth Notes
Chapter 4: Half Steps and Accidentals
Chapter 5: Major and Minor Seconds
Chapter 6: Musical Terms and Signs
Chapter 7: The Major Scale
Chapter 8: Key Signatures
Chapter 9: Simple Time
Chapter 10: Introduction to Intervals
Chapter 11: Minor Intervals
Chapter 12: Fourths, Fifths, and Tritones
Chapter 13: The Major Triad
Chapter 14: Musical Analysis

Chapter 15: The Modes and the Natural Minor Scale
Chapter 16: Compound Time Chapter 17: Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor
Chapter 18: Minor, Diminished, and Augmented Triads
Chapter 19: Analysis
Chapter 20: Triplets
Chapter 21: Syncopation
Chapter 22: Interval Wrap Up
Chapter 23: Inverted and Compound Intervals
Chapter 24: Chord Voicing
Chapter 25: Asymmetric Meter
Appendix A: Melodies for Sight Singing
Appendix B: Rhythms for Clapping
Appendix C: Music Theory on the Keyboard

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Mastery of Music Theory, Bk1, Ch7, Major Scales.pdf

Chapter 1: Diatonic Chords within the Major Key
Chapter 2: Piano Voicing with Primary Triads
Chapter 3: Diatonic Chords within the Minor Key
Chapter 4: Four-Part Chorale Style Writing
Chapter 5: Voice Leading and Forbidden Parallels
Chapter 6: Progression and Voice Leading with I, IV, V
Chapter 7: Harmonizing Melody: More Considerations
Chapter 8: Secondary Triads
Chapter 9: First Inversion Triads
Chapter 10: Second Inversion Triads: The Cadential 64
Chapter 11: The Pedal and Passing 64

Chapter 12: The Dominant 7th
Chapter 13: Inversions of Dominant 7th
Chapter 14: Other Diatonic Seventh Chords
Chapter 15: Seventh Chord Sequence in 5ths
Appendix A: Keys Around the Circle of Fifths
Appendix B: Qualities of Triads and Seventh Chords
Appendix C: Non Chord Tones 1
Appendix D: Non Chord Tones 2, The Suspension
Appendix E: Figured Bass Harmonization
Appendix F: Piano Harmonization Exercises
Appendix G: Repertoire for Analysis

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Mastery of Music Theory, Bk2, Ch10 Second Inversion Triads.pdf

Chapter 1: Seventh Chord Sequence in 5ths
Chapter 2: Secondary Dominant 7th Chords
Chapter 3: Secondary Diminished 7th Chords
Chapter 4: Borrowed Chords
Chapter 5: Modulation
Chapter 6: The Neapolitan Chord
Chapter 7: The Augmented 6th Chord
Chapter 8: Revisiting Neapolitan and Augmented 6th
Chapter 9: Enharmonic Modulations
Chapter 10: The Common Tone Diminished 7 Chord

Chapter 11: Altered Dominant Chords
Chapter 12: Overview of 19th Century Characteristics
Chapter 13: The Modes in a Modern Context
Chapter 14: Parallel Harmony
Chapter 15: Upper Structure Chords
Chapter 16: Pentatonic, Whole Tone, and Octatonic Scales
Chapter 17: Secundal, Quartal, and Quintal Harmony
Chapter 18: Atonal and 12-Tone Music
Appendix A: Figured Bass
Appendix B: Musical Examples

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Mastery of Music Theory, Bk3, Ch6, The Neapolitan Chord.pdf

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