The Complete Musician
An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening
Fourth Edition
Steven G. Laitz
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Foundations of Tonal Music
Chapter 1A: Musical Space
Chapter 1B: Musical Time: Pulse, Rhythm, and Meter
Chapter 2: Harnessing Space and Time: Introduction to Melody and Two-Voice Counterpoint
Chapter 3: Musical Density: Triads, Seventh Chords, and Texture
Part 2: Merging Melody and Harmony
Chapter 4: When Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm Converge
Chapter 5: Tonic and Dominant as Tonal Pillars and Introduction to Voice Leading
Chapter 6: The Impact of Melody, Rhythm, and Meter on Harmony; Introduction to V7; and Harmonizing Florid Melodies
Chapter 7: Contrapuntal Expansions of Tonic and Dominant: Six-Three Chords
Chapter 8: More Contrpuntal Expansions: Inversions of V7, Introduction to Leading-Tone Seventh Chords, and Reduction and Elavoration
Part 3: A New Harmonic Function, The Phrase Model, and Additional Melodic and Harmonic Embellishments
Chapter 9: The Pre-Dominant Function and the Phrase Model
Chapter 10: Accented and Chromatic Embellishing Tones
Chapter 11: Six-Four Chords, Revisiting the Subdominant, and Summary of Contrapuntal Expansions
Chapter 12: The Pre-Dominant Refines the Phrase Model
Part 4: New Chords and New Forms
Chapter 13: The Submediant: A New Diatonic Harmony, and Further Extensions of the Phrase Model
Chapter 14: The Mediant, the Back-Relating Dominant, and a Synthesis of Diatonic Harmonic Relationships
Chapter 15: The Period
Chapter 16: Other Small Musical Structures: Sentences, Double Periods, and Modified Periods
Chapter 17: Harmonic Sequences
Part 5: Functional Chromaticism
Chapter 18: Applied Chords
Chapter 19: Tonicization and Modulation
Chapter 20: Binary Form and Variations
Part 6: Expressive Chromaticism
Chapter 21: Modal Mixture
Chapter 22: Expansion of Modal Mixture Harmonies: Chromatic Modulation and the German Lied
Chapter 23: The Neapolitan Chord (bII)
Chapter 24: The Augmented Sixth Chord
Part 7: Large Forms: Ternary, Rondo, Sonata
Chapter 25: Ternary Form
Chapter 26: Rondo
Chapter 27: Sonata Form
Part 8: Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Harmony: The Shirt from Asymmetry to Symmetry
Chapter 28: New Harmonic Tendencies
Chapter 29: Melodic and Harmonic Symmetry Combine: Chromatic Sequences
Part 9: Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Music
Chapter 30: Vestiges of Common Practice and the Rise of a New Sound World
Chapter 31: Noncentric Music: Atonal Concepts and Analytical Methodology
Chapter 32: New Rhythmic and Metric Possibilities, Ordered PC Relations, and Twelve-Tone Techniques
Appendices
Appndix 1: Invertible Counterpoint, Compound Melody, and Implied Harmonies
Appendix 2: The Motive
Appendix 3: Additional Harmonic-Sequence Topics
Appendix 4: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix 5: Selected Answers to Textbook Exercises
Glossary
Index