Music in Theory and Practice ISE

Preface

Part A: The Renaissance And Baroque Periods

Chp. 1: Late Renaissance Polyphony

Chp. 2: Two-Voice Eighteenth Century Counterpoint

Chp. 3: The Fugue

Part B: Chromatic Harmony

Chp. 4: Borrowed Chords

Chp. 5: Neapolitan 6th Chords

Chp. 6: Augmented 6th Chords

Part C: The Classical Period (1750-1825

Chp. 7: Variation Technique

Chp. 8: Sonata Form

Chp. 9: Rondo Forms

Part D: Extended And Chromatic Harmony

Chp. 10: 9th,11th, and 13th Chords

Chp. 11: Altered Dominants

Chp. 12: Chromatic Mediants

Part E: The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Chp. 13: The Romantic Period (1825-1900)

Chp. 14: The Post-Romantic Style

Chp. 15: Impressionism and Related Styles

Chp. 16: The Early Twentieth Century

Chp. 17: Pitch-Class Set Theory

Chp. 18: Twelve-Tone Technique

Postlude: Music Since 1945

Appendixes

Glossary

Credits

Index

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