
Fundamentals, Function, and Form: Theory and Analysis of Tonal Western Art Music
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Andre Mount , SUNY Potsdam
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN 13: 9781942341994
Publisher: Milne Open Textbooks
Language: English
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CC BY-NC
Table of Contents
- I. Fundamentals
- 1. Introduction to Rhythm and Meter
- 2. Beat Division
- 3. Simple Meters
- 4. Compound Meters
- 5. Pitch
- 6. Major Scales
- 7. Minor Scales
- 8. Major Keys and Key Signatures
- 9. Minor Keys and Key Signatures
- 10. The Circle of Fifths
- II. Diatonic Polyphony and Functional Harmony
- 11. Intervals
- 12. Basic Two-Voice Interval Progressions
- 13. Triads
- 14. Three- and Four-Voice Progressions
- 15. Nonharmonic Tones
- 16. Minor Scale Variants
- 17. The vii° Chord
- 18. Seventh Chords
- 19. The Dominant Seventh Chord
- 20. Fully-diminished Seventh Chords
- 21. Figured Bass
- 22. Phrases, Cadences, and Harmonic Function
- 23. Auxiliary Sonorities
- 24. The Pre-Dominant Function
- 25. Diatonic Descending-fifth Sequences
- 26. Other Diatonic Sequences
- III. Modulation and Chromatic Harmony
- 27. Applied Chords
- 28. Modulation
- 29. Mixture
- 30. Advanced Mixture
- 31. The Neapolitan Chord
- 32. Augmented Sixth Sonorities
- 33. Chromatic Pre-Dominants
- 34. Other Chromatic Harmonies
- IV. Form
- 35. Sentences and Periods
- 36. Binary Form
- 37. Ternary and Rondo Forms
- 38. Sonata Form
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Author
Andre Mount holds a PhD in music theory from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is currently an associate professor of music theory at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. He has presented in North America at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Chapter), and the Society for American Music, as well as in Europe at the Keep It Simple, Make It Fast conference. His articles have been published in Music and the Moving Image, Journal of Musicology, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. He has also contributed to projects intended for general readership including The Encyclopedia of American Music and Culture and maintains an OER site for musicianship training at The Trained Ear.