Understanding basic music theory

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Understanding basic music theory: course introduction

1.2 Pitch: sharp, flat, and natural notes

1.3 Key signature

1.4 Enharmonic spelling

Duration: note lengths in written music

2.1 Duration: rest length

2.2 Time signature

2.4 Pickup notes and measures

2.5 Dots, ties, and borrowed divisions

2.6 Syncopation

2.8 Repeats and other musical road map signs

Dynamics and accents

3.1 Articulation

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The shape or contour of a melody

2.3 Melodic motion

2.4 Melodic phrases

2.6 Melodies in counterpoint

2.8 Suggestions for presenting these concepts to children

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Terms that describe texture

3.6 Heterophonic

3.7 Suggested listening

7 Classifying music

The physical basis

Acoustics for music theory

1 Standing waves and musical instruments

2 Harmonic series i: timbre and octaves

Notes and scales

Octaves and the major-minor tonal system

1 Half steps and whole steps

2 Major keys and scales

2.1 Tonal center

2.2 Major scales

2.3 Music in different major keys

3 Minor keys and scales

3.1 Music in a minor key

3.2 Minor scales

3.3 Relative minor and major keys

3.4 Harmonic and melodic minor scales

3.5 Jazz and "dorian minor"

4.1 The distance between pitches

4.2 Naming intervals

4.3 Classifying intervals

4.4 Perfect intervals

4.5 Major and minor intervals

4.6 Augmented and diminished intervals

4.7 Inverting intervals

5 Harmonic series ii: harmonics, intervals, and instruments

6 The circle of fifths

7 Scales that aren't major or minor

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Scales and western music

7.3 Pentatonic scales

7.4 Dividing the octave, more or less

7.5 Constructing a blues scale

7.6 Modes and ragas

7.7 Other scales

Harmony and form

0.1 Triads in root position

0.2 First and second inversions

1 Naming triads

2 Consonance and dissonance

3 Beyond triads: naming other chords

4 Beginning harmonic analysis

6.1 Form is the basic structure

6.2 Describing form

6.3 Labelling form with letters

6.4 Naming forms

1 Tuning systems

2 Modes and ragas

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The classical greek modes

2.3 The medieval church modes

2.5 The ragas of classical indian music

2.7 Bibliography

3 Transposition: changing keys

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