Essentials of Music Theory: Complete »

This contemporary-looking series introduces all musical concepts through concise lessons, followed by short exercises for immediate reinforcement. A page of ear training and a page of review complete each unit. LESSONS 1-25

• Staff, Notes and Pitches
  
• Treble and Bass Clefs
  
• Grand Staff and Ledger Lines
  
• Note Values
  
• Measure, Bar Line and Double Bar
  
• 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 Time Signatures
  
• Whole, Half and Quarter Notes and Rests
  
• Dotted Half Note and Dotted Quarter Note
  
• Ties and Slurs
  
• Repeat Sign, 1st and 2nd Endings
  
• Eighth Notes and Rests
  
• Dynamic Signs, Tempo Marks and Articulation
  
• D.C., D.S., Coda and Fine
  
• Flats, Sharps and Naturals
  
• Whole and Half Steps, Enharmonic Notes
  

• Tetrachords and Major Scales
  
• Key Signatures
  
• Chromatic Scale
  
• Intervals, Circle of Fifths
  
• Perfect, Major and Minor Intervals
  
• Augmented and Diminished Intervals
  
• Solfege and Transposition
  
• Sixteenth Notes and Rests
  
• Dotted Eighth Notes and Eighth Note Triplets
  
• Common Time and Cut Time
  
• 3/8 and 6/8 Time Signatures
  
• Pick-up Notes and Syncopation
  
• Primary and Major Triads
  
• Scale Degree Names
  
• V7 (Dominant 7th ) Chord
  

• 1st and 2nd Inversions of Triads
  
• Inversion of V7 Chords
  
• Figured Bass
  
• Major Chord Progressions
  
• Minor Scales and Minor Triads
  
• Modes
  
• Harmonizing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
  
• Broken Chords and Arpeggiated Accompaniments
  
• Passing and Neighboring Tones
  
• Composing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
  
• 12-Bar Blues Chord Progression and Blues Scale
  
• Basic Forms of Music