Preface The Method Syllable Systems Reading in Clefs Module 1: Simple Meters Module 1a: Simple Beats and Their First Division and Multiple Note Values Module 1b: Simple Duple and Quadruple Meters Module 1c: Simple Triple Meters Module 1d: Second Division and Multiple of the Beat in Simple Meters Module 1e: Rests Module 1f: Ties and Dotted Rhythms in Simple Meters Module 1g: The Anacrusis Module 1h: Less Common Simple Meters Module 2: Major and Minor Scales and Scale Degrees Module 2a: Major Scales and Scale Degrees Module 2b: Minor Scales and Scale Degrees Module 3: Improvisation Module 3a: Introduction to Improvisation Module 3b: Methods for Improvisation and Improvising Tonic Function Module 3c: Improvising Dominant Function Module 3d: Improvising Predominant Function Module 3e: Improvisation Through Arpeggiation Module 4: Compound Meters Module 4a: Compound Beats and Their First Division and Multiple Note Values Module 4b: Second Division of the Beat in Compound Meter Module 4c: Less Common Compound Meters Module 5: Intervals Module 5a: Hearing and Singing Intervals Acontextually Module 5b: Major and Minor Seconds Module 5c: Major and Minor Thirds Module 5d: Perfect Fifths and Octaves Module 5e: Perfect Fourths Module 5f: Minor and Major Sixths Module 5g: Tritones Module 5h: Minor and Major Sevenths Module 6: Triads Module 6a: Hearing and Singing Acontextual Triads Module 6b: Root Position Major Triads Module 6c: Root Position Minor Triads Module 6d: Inverted Major and Minor Triads Module 6e: Diminished Triads Module 7: Seventh Chords Module 7a: Singing and Hearing Seventh Chords Acontextually Module 7b: Dominant Seventh Chords in Root Position Module 7c: Dominant Seventh Chords in Inversion Module 7d: Minor Seventh Chords Module 7e: Half-Diminished Seventh Chords Module 7f: Fully-Diminished Seventh Chords Module 7g: Major Seventh Chords Module 8: Common Diatonic Harmonic Progressions Module 8a: Cadences and Phrasing Module 8b: The TPDT Progression Module 8c: Circle of Fifths Progressions Module 8d: Filled-In Descending Thirds (Pachelbel) Progressions Module 8e: Ascending Sequential Progressions Module 9: Irregular Division and Syncopation Module 9a: Triplets Module 9b: Duplets Module 9c: Syncopation Within a Measure (Intra-measure Syncopation) Module 9d: Syncopation Across a Barline (Inter-measure Syncopation) Module 9e: Triplets in Augmentation and Diminution Module 9f: Other Divisions of the Beat Module 9g: Reading Complex Rhythms Module 10: Non-modulating Chromaticism Module 10a: The Chromatic Scale and Surface Chromaticism Module 10b: Modal Mixture Module 10c: Secondary Chords in the Major Mode Module 10d: Secondary Chords in the Minor Mode Module 10e: Neapolitan and Augmented Sixth Chords Module 10f: Extended, Added Note, and Altered Chords Module 11: Modulation Module 11a: Techniques for Modulation Module 11b: Modulation Between Relative Keys Module 11c: Modulation to the Dominant Module 11d: Modulation to Other Closely Related Keys Module 11e: Modulation to Distantly Related Keys Module 12: Changing Meter, Polyrhythm, and Asymmetric Meters Module 12a: Changing Meter Module 12b: Metric Modulation Module 12c: Polyrhythms and Polymeters Module 12d: Meters with Unequal Beats Module 13: Other Tonally Derived Scales Module 13a: Pentatonic and Blues Scales Module 13b: The Ecclesiastic Modes Module 13c: Synthetic Scales Module 13d: Polytonality and Polymodality Module 14: Post-tonal Music Module 14a: Whole Tone and Octatonic Scales Module 14b: Post-tonal Music Appendices Appendix A Glossary of Non-English Musical Terms Appendix B Using Your Voice: Suggestions for Vocal Production for Non-singers Index of Literature Examples Credits.