Sight Singing

Part I: Elements of Music

Chapter 1: Pitch and Pitch Class

Chapter 2: Simple Meter

Chapter 3: Beat Divisions, Pitch Collections, and Major Keys

Chapter 4: Compound Duple Meter

Chapter 5: Minor Keys and Beat Subdivisions

Chapter 6: Intervals, and Compound Quadruple and Triple Meters

Chapter 7: Triads and Half-Note Beats

Chapter 8: Seventh Chords, Dotted-Half-Note Beats, and Disruptions of the Pulse

Chapter 9: The Diatonic Modes, Counterpoint, and Borrowed Beat Divisions in Simple Meter

Chapter 10: Plainchant, Melodic Embellishments, and Borrowed Beat Divisions in Compound Meter

 

Part II: Diatonic Harmony and Tonicization

Chapter 11: Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint, and Eighth-and Dotted-Eighth-Note Beats

Chapter 12: Phrases, Cadences, and Subdivided Half- and Dotted-Half-Note Beats

Chapter 13: More Dominant Sevenths and Predominant Harmonies, and Syncopation

Chapter 14: 6/4 Chords, Melody Harmonization and Swing Rhythm

Chapter 15: Root Progressions, Syncopated Subdivisions, More Cadences, and Modal Melodies

Chapter 16: Melodic Embellishment, Harmonizing Modal Melodies, and Compound Triplets

Chapter 17: Diminished Chords, Mixed Beat Divisions, and Compound Duplets

Chapter 18: Phrase Structure, Melody Harmonization, and Syncopation with Borrowed Beat Divisions

Chapter 19: Tonicizing V and Combined Beat Divisions in Simple Meters

Chapter 20: Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than ^5 and Harmonizing Melodies That Tonicize the Subdominant

Chapter 21: Sequences Hemiola, and Harmonizing Melodies That Tonicize the Submediant

 

Part III: Chromatic Harmony and Form

Chapter 22: Modulation to Closely Related Keys and Harmonizing Melodies That Tonicize the Mediant in Minor

Chapter 23: Small Part Forms, Modulation to Other Closely-Related Keys, and Changing Meter

Chapter 24: Contrapuntal Practices and Dual Meter Signatures

Chapter 25: Variations and Super-Subdivided Simple Beats

Chapter 26: Modal Mixture and Super-Subdivided Compound Beats

Chapter 27: The Neapolitan Sixth, Augmented-Sixth Chords, and Traditional Dance Rhythms

Chapter 28: Chromatic Modulation and Ragtime

Chapter 29: Vocal Forms and Asymmetric Meters

Chapter 30: Sonata Form, Asymmetric Triple Meters, and Common-Tone Embellishing Chords

Chapter 31: Rondo and Three-Against-Four Rhythms (3:4)

Chapter 32: Lead-Sheet Notation, Quaternary Song Form, Jazz, and the Blues

Chapter 33: Popular Song

 

Part IV: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Chapter 34: Modes, Scales, and Beat Divisions of Five and Seven

Chapter 35: Symmetric Pitch Collections, Changing Meter, and Slow-Tempo Asymmetric Meters

Chapter 36: Fixed-Do and Integer Solmization, and Spoken-Word Rhythms

Chapter 37: Trichords, Polymeter, and Obscured Meter

Chapter 38: Pitch-Class Sets, Ordered Segments, and Metric Modulation

Chapter 39: Serialism, Polymeter, Ametric Meter, and Non-Retrogradable Rhythms

Chapter 40: Borrowing from the Past