Music in theory and practice / Bruce Benward, Marilyn Saker.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 395) and index.

volume 1. Notation Scales, tonality, key, modes Intervals and transposition Chords Cadences and nonharmonic tones Melodic organization Texture and textural reduction Species counterpoint Voice leading in four-part chorale writing Harmonic progression and harmonic rhythm The dominant seventh chord The leading-tone seventh chords Nondominant seventh chords Secondary dominants and leading-ton chords Modulation Two-part (binary) form three-part (ternary) form -- volume 2. Late Renaissance polyphony Two-voice eighteenth-century counterpoint The Fugue Borrowed chords Neapolitan 6th chords Augmented 6th chords Variation technique Sonata form Rondo forms 9th, 11th, and 13th chords Altered dominants Chromatic mediants The romantic period The post-romantic style Impressionism and related styles The early twentieth century Twelve-tone technique Music since 1945.