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The Elements of MusicViolin Sheet Music

  1. Surviving the Elements of Music
  2. Pitch: The Sound of Music
  3. Melody, Harmony and Outer Space!
  4. It’s About (Musical) Time!
  5. Texture: Your Musical Fiber
  6. A Dynamic Musician
  7. Color, Form, and Style in Music

Music Notation

  1. Music Lovers, Take Note!
  2. In Music, Accidentals Happen

Major Scales

  1. Meet Major Scales!
  2. Major Musical Monuments
  3. Who Really Understands Enharmonics?

Key Signatures

Musical Intervals

  1. Meet Your New Friends: Musical Intervals
  2. Perfect Intervals: The Quality of Your Musical Life
  3. How to Learn Major and Minor Musical Intervals
  4. Learning Musical Intervals: The Finale!

Minor Scales

  1. How to Write Natural Minor Scales
  2. How to Write Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
  3. The Minor Scales: Bach in Action!

Rhythm and Meter

  1. Note Values
  2. Simple Time Signatures
  3. Compound Time Signatures
  4. How to Notate Rhythm
  5. Irregular Beat Divisions and Complex Meters

Harmony

Triads and Seventh Chords

  1. Introduction to Chords and Triads
  2. Understanding Seventh Chords
  3. Chord Inversions
  4. Do I Really Have to Learn Figured Bass?
  5. How to Label Chord Inversions

Diatonic Harmony

  1. Why You Need to Learn Traditional Harmony
  2. Introduction to Diatonic Harmony
  3. Harmonic Rhythm and Cadences
  4. How to Learn the Harmonic Series
  5. Four-Part Harmony: Getting Started
  6. Four-Part Harmony: The Forbidden Zone! (Part I)
  7. Four-Part Harmony: The Forbidden Zone! (Part II)

Basic Root-Position Progressions

  1. Learning the Basic Chord Progressions
  2. Progression by Third
  3. Progression by Fifth
  4. Progression by 2nd
  5. Can You Name These Three Famous Chords?

Building Effective Harmonic Progressions

  1. Now That’s Music Theory Progress! (Part 1)
  2. Now That’s Music Theory Progress! (Part 2)
  3. Introduction to Chord Substitution
  4. How to Write Longer Chord Progressions
  5. Chord Inversions: Make Your Bass Line Interesting

The V7 Chord

  1. The V7 Chord: Down with the 7th!
  2. The V7 Chord: Out with the 5th!
  3. How to Resolve Inverted V7 Chords

Other Seventh Chords

  1. More 7th Chords: The Supertonic Seventh
  2. The Circle-of-Fifths Progression with 7th Chords

Chromatic Harmony

  1. Introducing Chromatic Harmony
  2. Understanding Secondary Dominants
  3. Secondary Dominants in Action
  4. Understanding Key Changes
  5. Nearly-Related Keys and Pivot Chords
  6. Borrowed Chords
  7. The Neapolitan Sixth Chord
  8. Augmented Sixth Chords
  9. Altered Dominants
  10. Linear Harmony


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