Study Guides | Techniques and Materials of Music

Part I: Rudiments, Units 1-7

Study Guide 1: Pitch Names, Intervals, Scales, Key Signatures, Triads; Rhythm and Meter

Part II: Diatonic Materials, Units 1-3

Study Guide 2: The Tonic and Dominant Triads; Passing Tones and Auxiliary Tones

Part II: Diatonic Materials, Unit 4

Study Guide 3: The Dominant Seventh Chord in Root Position

Part II: Diatonic Materials, Units 5-8

Study Guide 4: The Subdominant Triad; Cadences; The Cadential Six-Four Chord

Part II: Diatonic Materials, Units 9-11

Study Guide 5: Triads in First Inversion; The Supertonic Triad; Inversions of the Dominant Seventh; Appoggiaturas and Suspensions

Part II: Diatonic Materials, Units 12-19

Study Guide 6: The Linear Six-Four Chord; The Submediant, Mediant, and Leading-Tone Triads; The Sequence; The Supertonic 7th and Leading-Tone 7th Chords

Part III: Chromatic Materials, Unit 1

Study Guide 7: Secondary Dominant Chords

Part III: Chromatic Materials, Unit 2

Study Guide 8: Modulation

Part III: Chromatic Materials, Units 3-4

Study Guide 9: Linear Diminished Seventh Chords, The Neapolitan Triad

Part III: Chromatic Materials, Units 5-7

Study Guide 10: Augmented Sixth Chords; Modulation by Other Means; Ninth Chords

Part IV: Twentieth-Century Materials, Units 1-9

Study Guide 11. Twentieth-Century Techniques: Pop Chord Symbols, Diatonic Modes, Exotic Scales, Polychords

Part IV: Twentieth-Century Materials, Units 10-12

Study Guide 12: Free Atonality, Serialism and Beyond