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

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Terms that describe texture

3.6 Heterophonic

3.7 Suggested listening

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Some useful terms

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

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

Harmony and form

1 Naming triads

2 Consonance and dissonance

3 Beyond triads: naming other chords

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Chord symbols

3.3 Seventh chords

3.4 Added notes, suspensions, and extensions

3.6 Altering notes and chords

4 Beginning harmonic analysis

1 Tuning systems

2 Modes and ragas

3 Transposition: changing keys

Source: OpenStax, Understanding basic music theory. OpenStax CNX. Jan 10, 2007 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10363/1.3

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