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Open Music Theory

This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That means that this text is meant to take a back seat to student music making (and breaking). It is not the center of the course. The three original authors use this textbook in the context of “inverted” or “flipped” courses, often following an inquiry-based model. As a result, most of the pages in this textbook do not read like a typical twentieth-century textbook.

MusicHumanities
Author
Robin Wharton and Kris Shaffer eds.
Publisher
Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
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Contents· 119 sections
  1. 01: Fundamentals
  2. 1.01: Triads and Seventh Chords
  3. 1.02: Types of Contrapuntal Motion
  4. 1.03: Basic Notation
  5. 1.04: Meter and Time Signatures
  6. 1.05: Protonotation
  7. 1.06: Rhythmic Values
  8. 1.07: Beams and Borrowed Divisions
  9. 1.08: Pitches and Octave Designations
  10. 1.09: Scales and Scale Degrees
  11. 1.10: Key Signatures
  12. 1.11: Intervals and Dyads
  13. 02: Voice-Leading and Model Composition
  14. 2.01: Introduction to Strict Voice-Leading
  15. 2.02: Strict Two-Voice Composition (Species Counterpoint) - Composing a cantus firmus
  16. 2.03: Strict Two-Voice Composition - Composing a First-Species Counterpoint
  17. 2.04: Strict Two-Voice Composition - Composing a Second-Species Counterpoint
  18. 2.05: Strict Two-Voice Composition - Composing a Third-Species Counterpoint
  19. 2.06: Strict Two-Voice Composition - Composing a Fourth-Species Counterpoint
  20. 2.07: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Introduction to Thoroughbass
  21. 2.08: Strict Four-Voice Composition - A Brief History of basso continuo Keyboard-Style Voice-Leading
  22. 2.09: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Generating Roman Numerals from a Figured Bass Line
  23. 2.10: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Composing in basso continuo Style
  24. 2.11: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Style and Tendency
  25. 2.12: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Tendency Tones and Functional Harmonic Dissonances
  26. 2.13: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Realizing a Figured Bass in Strict basso continuo Style
  27. 2.14: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Melodic Keyboard-Style Voice-Leading
  28. 2.15: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Keyboard-Style Voice-Leading Schemata
  29. 2.16: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Realizing a Figured Bass Line in Melodic Keyboard Style
  30. 2.17: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Realizing an Unfigured Bass Line
  31. 2.18: Strict Four-Voice Composition - Embellishing Tones
  32. 03: Harmony
  33. 3.01: Introduction to Musical Functions
  34. 3.02: Harmonic Functions
  35. 3.03: Harmonic Syntax - The Idealized Phrase
  36. 3.04: Harmonic Syntax - Prolongation
  37. 3.05: Performing a Harmonic Analysis
  38. 3.06: Classical Cadence Types
  39. 3.07: Chromatically Altered Subdominant Chords
  40. 3.08: Applied Chords
  41. 3.09: Modal Mixture
  42. 3.10: Modulation
  43. 3.11: Handouts and Charts
  44. 04: Form (I) - Thematic Structure in the Classical Style
  45. 4.01: Classical Theme Types - The Sentence
  46. 4.02: Classical Theme Types - The Period
  47. 4.03: Classical Theme Types - Hybrid Themes
  48. 4.04: Classical Theme Types - Compound Period
  49. 4.05: Classical Theme Types - Compound Sentence
  50. 4.06: Classical Theme Types - The Small Ternary
  51. 4.07: Classical Theme Types - The Small Binary
  52. 4.08: Classical Theme Types - Reference
  53. 4.09: Classical Theme Types - Thematic Function Reference
  54. 4.10: Techniques of Phrase Rhythm - External Expansions
  55. 4.11: Techniques of Phrase Rhythm - Internal Expansions
  56. 05: Form (II) - Other Forms and Thematic Structures
  57. 5.01: Sonata Form - Introduction to Sonata Theory
  58. 5.02: Sonata Form - Exposition Types
  59. 5.03: Sonata Form - Structural Points of Arrival
  60. 5.04: Sonata Form - Thematic Modules
  61. 5.05: Sonata Form - The Recapitulation
  62. 5.06: Sonata Form - The Development
  63. 5.07: Sonata Form - Framing Modules (Introduction and Coda)
  64. 5.08: Rondo Form - Introduction
  65. 5.09: Rondo Form - Thematic Function in Rondo Form
  66. 5.10: Rondo Form - Five-Part Rondo Form
  67. 5.11: Rondo Form - Sonata Rondo
  68. 5.12: Other Formal Structures in the Classical Style - Minuet Form
  69. 5.13: Galant Schemata - Opens and Closes
  70. 5.14: Galant Schemata - Continuation Patterns
  71. 5.15: Galant Schemata - Summary
  72. 5.16: Galant Schemata - Improvising a Sentence with Galant Schemata
  73. 06: Post-Tonal Music (I)
  74. 6.01: Pitch (class)
  75. 6.02: Interval (class)
  76. 6.03: Modulo Arithmetic
  77. 6.04: Organizing Forces - Collections and Scales
  78. 6.05: Organizing Forces - Symmetry and Centricity
  79. 6.06: Set Theory - Normal Order
  80. 6.07: Set Theory - Transposition
  81. 6.08: Set Theory - Inversion
  82. 6.09: Set Theory - Set Class and Prime Form (1)
  83. 6.10: Set Theory - Set Class and Prime Form (2)
  84. 6.11: Set Theory - Complements
  85. 6.12: Set Theory - Common Tones under Transposition
  86. 07: Post-Tonal Music (II)
  87. 7.01: Twelve-Tone Theory - Basics
  88. 7.02: Twelve-Tone Theory - Operations
  89. 7.03: Twelve-Tone Theory - Intervallic Structure
  90. 7.04: Twelve-Tone Theory - Derived Rows
  91. 7.05: Twelve-Tone Theory - Invariance
  92. 7.06: General Post-Tonal Resources - Analyzing a Post-Tonal Piece from Scratch
  93. 7.07: General Post-Tonal Resources - Analyzing Atonal Music
  94. 7.08: General Post-Tonal Resources - Analyzing 12-Tone Music
  95. 7.09: General Post-Tonal Resources - Glossary of Atonal Musical Terms
  96. 7.10: General Post-Tonal Resources - Sheet of Blank Chromatic-Scale Clock Faces
  97. 08: Pop
  98. 8.01: Pop Rock Music
  99. 8.1.01: Rhythm - Syncopation in Pop
  100. 8.1.1.01: Rhythm - Syncopation in Pop Rock Music
  101. 8.1.02: Harmony - Harmony in Pop
  102. 8.1.2.01: Harmony - Harmony in Pop Rock Music
  103. 8.1.03: Harmony - The 50s doo-wop Progression
  104. 8.1.04: Harmony - The Singer
  105. 8.1.4.01: Harmony - The Singer Songwriter Chord Progression
  106. 8.1.05: Harmony - The Puff Progression
  107. 8.1.06: Harmony - The Blues Progression
  108. 8.1.07: Harmony - The Lament Progression
  109. 8.1.08: Harmony - Circle-of-fifths Progression Minor Mode
  110. 8.1.09: Harmony - Plagal Progressions
  111. 8.1.10: Form - Overview
  112. 8.1.11: Form - Terminology and Basic Concepts
  113. 8.1.12: Form - Formal Containers and Module Structures
  114. 8.1.13: Form - Formal Functions
  115. 8.1.14: Form - Analytical Notation
  116. 09: Text and Music
  117. 9.01: Analyzing Poetry
  118. 10: Technology
  119. 10.01: Using Trinket