Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Contents
Musical sounds and their organization -- Melody -- Intervals -- The beginnings of harmony, triads -- Functional harmony and cadences -- Primary triads and harmonization -- Secondary triads and substitution -- Modulation and transition -- Secondary sevenths -- Other diatonic secondary sevenths -- The cadential six-four -- The dominant ninth -- Secondary ninths -- Chords of the eleventh and thirteenth -- Chromatic alteration of diatonic chords -- Chromatic harmony -- Remote modulation -- Pedal points -- Steps beyond -- Music quoted in examples in text -- Key to musical examples -- Further reading.
