Examples

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MODES AND MODAL HARMONY
1Modes
COUNTERPOINT
2Contrapuntal Textures
DIATONIC HARMONY
3Cadences
4Tonic and Dominant
5Tonic / Subdominant / Dominant
6First Inversion Chords (I,IV,ii,V)
7Leading Tone Triads and Tetrads (viio and viio7)
8Non-Chord Tones
96/4 Chords
10Supertonic and Submediant
11Mediant and Subtonic
12Nondominant Seventh Chords
13Minor v
14Periods and Sentences
15Diatonic Sequences
CHROMATIC HARMONY
16Applied Chords
17Tonicization
18Chromatic Sequences
19Pivot Chord and Direct Modulations
20Common-tone Modulations
21Modal Mixture
22Binary Form
23Ternary Form
24Neapolitan Sixth Chords
25Augmented Sixth Chords
26Abrupt and Enharmonic Modulations
27Common Tone Diminished Seventh Chords
28Augmented Triad
29Dominant Ninth Chords
30Elevenths and Thirteenths
31Sonata Form
20th AND 21st CENTURY TECHNIQUES
32Nonfunctional Harmony
33Nontertian Harmony
3412-Tone
35Dodecaphonic Examples
36Happening / Performance Art
37Graphic Scores / Instruction Based Scores
38Electronic / Electroacoustic / Installations
APPENDIX
A1Treatises
A2Manifestos
A3Handouts
A4Sample Assignments
A5Four-Part Chorales that Aren’t Bach
A6Additional Composers Worthy of Study