Fundamentals of music : rudiments, musicianship, and composition / Earl Henry.

Includes index.

Preface -- The fifth edition -- Using the text -- The compact disc -- Web site : uppervoices.com -- Ear-training drills -- Chapter self tests -- Unit reviews -- Interactive fundamental drills -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Notating rhythm -- Essential terms and symbols -- Traditional western music -- Notation -- The notation of rhythm -- Note values -- Rests values -- Measures -- Time signatures -- Calligraphy : note and rest values -- Smaller rhythmic values -- A step further : larger and smaller note values -- Calligraphy : eighths and sixteenths -- The dot -- The tie -- Flags and beams -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 2. Notating pitch -- Essential terms and symbols -- The staff -- The clef -- Stem direction -- Tricks of the trade : learning the "ABCs" -- Ledger lines -- Calligraphy : clefs and ledger lines -- The octave -- The grand staff -- Musicianship 2-1 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 3. The keyboard -- Essential terms and symbols -- The keyboard -- Musicianship 3-1 -- Accidentals -- The sharp -- The flat -- The natural sign -- Musicianship 3-2 -- Calligraphy : notating accidentals -- Double sharps and double flats -- Enharmonic equivalents -- Octave designation -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 4. Simple meters -- Essential terms and symbols -- Metric accent -- Triple meter -- Duple meter -- Quadruple meter -- Rest notation -- Tricks of the trade : using counting syllables -- Musicianship 4-1 -- Beat division and subdivision -- Meters with an eighth-note beat -- Alla breve and common time -- A step further : conducting -- Syncopation -- Calligraphy : beaming -- Tricks of the trade : counting syllables -- Transcription and arrangement -- Musicianship 4-2 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 5. Major scales and keys -- Essential terms and symbols -- The major scale -- Scale degrees -- Diatonic pitches -- Diatonic and chromatic half steps -- Major and minor modes -- Musicianship 5-1 -- Transposing major scales -- Musicianship 5-2 -- Major keys -- Key signature -- Order of sharps and flats -- Major key signatures -- The circle of fifths -- Tricks of the trade : learning key signatures -- Musicianship 5-3 -- Building skills -- Creative projects --

6. Intervals -- Essential terms -- Interval type -- Musicianship 6-1 -- Interval quality -- Perfect intervals -- Understanding quality by major-scale comparison -- Musicianship 6-2 -- A step further : doubly augmented and diminished intervals -- Major/minor intervals -- Guidelines for interval construction and identification -- Musicianship 6-3 -- Interval inversion -- Writing intervals below a given pitch -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 7. Compound meters -- Essential terms and symbols -- Note values in compound meters -- Compound time signatures -- Beat subdivision -- Tricks of the trade : compound meter signatures -- Calligraphy : beaming in compound meters -- Tricks of the trade : counting in compound meters -- Musicianship 7-1 -- Borrowed division -- Tricks of the trade : counting the borrowed division -- Musicianship 7-2 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 8. Minor scales and keys -- Essential terms -- Minor scales -- Minor key signatures -- Musicianship 8-1 -- Variations in minor -- Natural (pure) minor -- Harmonic minor -- Melodic minor -- Musicianship 8-2 -- Key relationships -- The parallel relationship -- The relative relationship -- Tricks of the trade : parallel major and minor keys -- Musicianship 8-3 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 9. Modes and other scales -- Essential terms -- The modes -- Major and minor modes -- Transposing modes -- Transposition and recognition through key signature -- Other modes and scales -- Pentatonic scale -- Minor pentatonic and blues scales -- Whole-tone scale -- Locrian mode -- Chromatic scale -- Musicianship 9-1 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 10. Introduction to form -- Essential terms and symbols -- Building phrases -- Unifying and extending phrases -- Repetition -- Variation -- Sequence -- Contrast -- The period -- Phrase group -- Double period -- Other forms -- Verse and refrain -- Thirty-two bar song form -- Building skills -- Creative projects --

11. Triads -- Essential terms -- Triad quality -- Major and minor triads -- Musicianship 11-1 -- Diminished and augmented triads -- Identifying and constructing triads -- Triads and stability -- Musicianship 11-2 -- Inverted triads -- First and second inversions -- Musicianship 11-3 -- Constructing triads with given third or fifth -- Triads with given third -- Triads with given fifth -- Musicianship 11-4 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 12. Chords and symbols -- Essential terms and symbols -- Triad and chord identification -- Doubling -- Identifying chords -- Arpeggiation -- Musicianship 12-1 -- Chord symbols -- Roman-numeral analysis -- Diatonic triads in major keys -- Arabic-numeral labels -- Musicianship 12-2 -- Diatonic triads in minor keys -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 13. Tonality -- Essential terms -- Texture -- Homophony -- A Step further : improvisation -- Tonality -- Melodic tendency -- Musicianship 13-1 -- Harmonic function -- Tonic, predominant, and dominant functions -- Harmonic dissonance -- Seventh chords -- Seventh chords and symbols -- Musicianship 13-2 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- 14. Harmonization -- Essential terms -- Harmonization -- Harmonic cadences -- Planning cadences in a melody -- Harmonic rhythm -- Planning harmonic rhythm in a harmonization -- Harmonizing a melody -- Nonchord tones -- Vocal ranges -- Keys and transposition -- Planning the harmony -- Issues in jazz and popular styles -- A step further : copyright -- Musicianship 14-1 -- Building skills -- Creative projects -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. The nature of sound -- Essential terms -- Sound waves -- Amplitude and intensity -- Timbre and quality -- The harmonic series -- Duration and length -- Appendix B. Terms and symbols of tempo and expression -- Essential terms -- Tempo -- Dynamics -- Expression -- Short glossary of Italian terms -- Appendix C. The C clefs -- Essential terms -- Alto and tenor clefs -- Soprano and mezzo-soprano clefs -- Building Skills -- Answers to aural drills self tests -- Glossary of terms and symbols -- Index.