The Complete Musician

PART 1: The Foundations of Tonal Music
1. A. Musical Space
B. Musical Time: Pulse, Rhythm, and Meter
2. Harnessing Space and Time: Introduction to Melody and Two-Voice Counterpoint
3. Musical Density: Triads, Seventh Chords, and Texture
PART 2: Merging Melody and Harmony
4. When Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm Converge
5. Tonic and Dominant as Tonal Pillars and Introduction to Voice Leading
6. The Impact of Melody, Rhythm, and Meter on Harmony; Introduction to V7; and Harmonizing Florid Melodies
7. Contrapuntal Expansions of Tonic and Dominant: Six-Three Chords
8. More Contrapuntal Expansions: Inversions of V7, Introduction to Leading-Tone Seventh Chords, and Reduction and Elaboration
PART 3: A New Harmonic Function, the Phrase Model, and Additional Melodic and Harmonic Embellishments
9. The Pre-Dominant Function and the Phrase Model
10. Accented and Chromatic Embellishing Tones
11. Six-Four Chords, Revisiting the Subdominant, and Summary of Contrapuntal Expansions
12. The Pre-Dominant Refines the Phrase Model
PART 4: New Chords and New Forms
13. The Submediant: A New Diatonic Harmony, and Further Extensions of the Phrase Model
14. The Mediant, the Back-Relating Dominant, and a Synthesis of Diatonic Harmonic Relationships
15. The Period
16. Other Small Musical Structures: Sentences, Double Periods, and Modified Periods
17. Harmonic Sequences
PART 5: Functional Chromaticism
18. Applied Chords
19. Tonicization and Modulation
20. Binary Form and Variations
PART 6: Expressive Chromaticism
21. Modal Mixture
22. Expansion of Modal Mixture Harmonies: Chromatic Modulation and the German Lied
23. The Neapolitan Chord (bII)
24. The Augmented Sixth Chord
PART 7: Large Forms: Ternary, Rondo, Sonata
25. Ternary Form
26. Rondo
27. Sonata Form
PART 8: Introduction to 19th-Century Harmony: The Shift from Asymmetry to Symmetry
28. New Harmonic Tendencies
29. Melodic and Harmonic Symmetry Combine: Chromatic Sequences
PART 9: 20th Century Theory: Post-Tonal Music
30. Vestiges of Common Practice and the Rise of a New Sound World
31. Non-Centric Music: Atonal Concepts and Analytical Methodology
32. New Rhythmic and Metric Possibilities; Ordered relations, Twelve Tone Techniques
Index of Terms and Concepts
Index of Musical Examples and Exercises
Online Appendices
Appendix 1. Invertible Counterpoint, Compound Melody, and Implied Harmonies
Appendix 2. The Motive
Appendix 3. Additional Harmonic Sequence Topics
Appendix 4. Abbreviations and Acronyms

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- Supplementary examples, exercises, and teaching guidelines that detail effective strategies for each chapter
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- Streaming audio for nearly all examples
- Online appendices with additional content
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Steven G. Laitz is chair of the Music Theory and Analysis department at The Juilliard School and Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He serves as Director of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Editor of Music Theory Pedagogy Online.

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• Includes almost 4,500 musical examples from the common-practice repertoire and nearly 20 hours of streaming music, performed by the students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music.

• Coverage of twentieth-century and contemporary music theory meets the needs of professors who want to integrate post-tonal music into their courses.
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