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About the Author
Preface & Acknowledgements
1. Composing a Basso Ostinato
2. Composing in Binary Forms
3. Composing in Ternary Forms
4. Composing a Sonata
5. Composing Canons
6. Composing a Fugue
7. Composing Chorale Settings
8. Composing a Theme and Variations
9. Composing an Aria
10. Quartal Harmony
11. Synthetic Scales
12. Polytonality
13. Nonfunctional Tonality
14. Composing With Sets
15. Dodecaphony [12-Tone Technique]
16. Process Music [Minimalism]
17. Aleatoric Music
18. Mass Sonority
19. Microtonality
20. Techniques of Orchestration
21. The Forces of Tonal Harmony
22. Key Signatures
23. Non-Harmonic Tones
24. Common Practice Era Chord Qualities
25. Common Practice Era Scales, Intervals, and Chord Functions
26. Understanding Inversions of Triads and Seventh Chords
27. The Cadential 6/4
28. Neapolitan Chord
29. Augmented Sixth Chords
30. Secondary Dominants
31. Secondary Dominant Quizzes
32. Quiz Answers
33. The Diminished Seventh Chord
34. The Sequence
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