Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Musical Sound -- Music versus Noise -- Pitch (Frequency) -- Learning Note Names -- Intensity (Amplitude) -- Tone Quality (Waveform) -- Synthesis -- Exercises -- Chapter 2 The Notes -- Learning the Notes -- Locating Note C -- The Musical Alphabet -- The Names of the Black Keys -- Importance of Note Names -- Exercises -- Chapter 3 The Major Scale -- Types of Scales -- Introducing the Major Scale -- Key -- Scale -- Playing the C Major Scale -- Understanding Intervals -- Exercises -- Chapter 4 Rhythm, Tempo, and Note Lengths -- Pulse and Beat -- Tempo -- Note Lengths -- Dotted Notes -- Rests -- Resolution, Snap to Grid, and Quantization -- Exercises -- Chapter 5 Score Editing -- Pitch Notation -- The Treble Clef -- The Bass Clef -- Alternative Clefs -- Sharps and Flats on the Clefs -- Rhythmic Notation -- Beaming Notes -- Percussion Staffs -- Score-Editing Symbols -- Exercises -- Chapter 6 Intervals -- Understanding Intervals -- Working Out Intervals -- Compound Intervals -- Exercises -- Chapter 7 Meter -- Metric Cycles -- Time Signatures -- Compound Time Signatures -- Developing and Composing Rhythms -- Rhythmic Motives -- Triplets -- Shuffle Rhythm -- Cross Rhythm -- Exercises -- Chapter 8 Chords -- Perfect Concords -- Imperfect Concords -- Thirds and Sixths -- Seconds and Sevenths -- Types of Intervals -- Triadic Harmony -- Chord Progressions -- Triads -- Triads in the C Major Scale -- Chordal Functions -- Exercises -- Chapter 9 The Natural Minor Scale -- Understanding Minor Keys -- Chords in the Minor Scale -- Exercises -- Chapter 10 Melody and Motives -- Motives -- Writing a Strong Motive -- Exercises -- Chapter 11 The Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales -- The Harmonic Minor Scale -- The Melodic Minor Scale -- Exercises -- Chapter 12 Augmented and Diminished Intervals and Interval Inversions.

Augmented and Diminished Intervals -- Interval Inversions -- Exercises -- Chapter 13 Chordal Inversions, Octave Doubling, and Spacing -- Harmony -- Inverted Chords -- Octave Doubling -- Spacing -- Exercises -- Chapter 14 Additive Rhythms -- Understanding Additive Rhythms -- Practical Exercises -- Exercises -- Chapter 15 Expanding Your Knowledge of Keys -- Understanding Keys -- Major and Relative Minor Keys -- Exercises -- Chapter 16 The Pentatonic Scale -- Understanding Mode -- Introducing the Pentatonic Scale -- Pentatonic Modes -- Pentatonic Harmony -- Exercises -- Chapter 17 Major, Minor, Augmented, and Diminished Triads -- The Diminished Triad -- The Augmented Triad -- The Four Types of Triads -- Exercises -- Chapter 18 Chord Progressions and Root Movement -- Root Movement -- Root Movement by Fourths -- Root Movement by Thirds -- Root Movement by Seconds -- Exercises -- Chapter 19 The Cycle of Fifths -- Keys on the Bright Side (Sharp Keys) -- Keys on the Dark Side (Flat Keys) -- Closing the Cycle -- The Cycle of Fifths and Minor Keys -- Exercises -- Chapter 20 The Seven Diatonic Modes -- Modal Music -- The Seven Modal Scales -- The Ionian Mode -- The Dorian Mode -- The Phrygian Mode -- The Lydian Mode -- The Mixolydian Mode -- The Aeolian Mode -- The Locrian Mode -- Modes in Other Keys -- Exercises -- Chapter 21 Chords of the Seventh -- Seventh Chords -- Sevenths in the C Major Scale -- The Dominant Seventh Chord -- Modulation -- Using Seventh Chords -- Seventh Chord Harmony in the Minor Scale -- Exercises -- Chapter 22 Exotic Scales -- Two Kinds of Exotic Scales -- Experimenting with Exotic Scales -- Neapolitan Modes -- Middle Eastern Scales -- Eastern European Scales -- Hindu Melas -- Jazz and Blues Scales -- Ancient Egyptian Pentatonic Scales -- Japanese Pentatonic Scales -- Balinese Pentatonic Scales -- Whole Tone Scale -- Artificial Scales.

Exercises -- Chapter 23 Complex Harmony -- Ninth Chords -- Chords of the Eleventh -- Chords of the Thirteenth -- Exercises -- Chapter 24 Arpeggiation -- Arpeggios -- Arpeggiation and Non-Chord Tones -- Passing Notes -- Returning Tones -- Using Non-Chord Tones -- Steps in an Arpeggio -- Exercises -- Chapter 25 Intonation -- History of Intonation -- Just Intonation -- Pythagorean Intonation -- Problems with Alternative Tunings -- Tuning Balinese Scales -- Tuning Arabian and Hindustani Scales -- Tuning Overtone Melodies -- Exercises -- Chapter 26 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Scales -- Major Scales -- Natural Minor Scales -- Harmonic Minor Scales -- Melodic Minor Scales -- The Chromatic Scale Harmonic Form -- Triads in the Chromatic Scale (Harmonic Form: Key of C) -- Seventh Chords in the Chromatic Scale (Harmonic Form: Key of C) -- Appendix B: Audio CD and Accompanying Text Sidebars -- Track 1 -- Track 2 -- Track 3 -- Track 4 -- Track 5 -- Track 6 -- Track 7 -- Track 8 -- Track 9 -- Track 10 -- Track 11 -- Track 12 -- Track 13 -- Track 14 -- Track 15 -- Track 16 -- Track 17 -- Track 18 -- Track 19 -- Track 20 -- Track 21 -- Track 22 -- Track 23 -- Track 24 -- Track 25 -- Track 26 -- Track 27 -- Track 28 -- Track 29 -- Track 30 -- Track 31 -- Track 32 -- Track 33 -- Track 34 -- Track 35 -- Track 36 -- Track 37 -- Track 38 -- Track 39 -- Track 40 -- Track 41 -- Track 42 -- Track 43 -- Track 44 -- Track 45 -- Track 46 -- Track 47 -- Track 48 -- Track 49 -- Track 50 -- Track 51 -- Track 52 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.