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Texts will need to be purchased for the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Theory courses. Please scroll down the Tables of Contents below to view the curriculum for each level, and to the bottom of the page to purchase the text level that is right for you. All texts are delivered as PDF documents. All texts include homework assignments and corresponding answer sheets.
NOTE: The link for purchasing the PDF version will be sent within 72 hours of purchase.
BEGINNING THEORY TEXT (90 pages) includes:
1. The Keyboard
2. Reading Notes
3. Intervals I: Introduction to the Major/Minor System - 2nds, 3rds, 4ths & 5ths
4. Intervals II: The Major/Minor System with Sharps and Flats
5. Intervals III: The Perfect System, Extended Intervals, Double Sharps & Flats
6. Rules of Stemming
7. Triads
7a. Triads in Action: A Brief Introduction
7b. Organizing Your Thinking: Triads
8. Major Scales, Part I
9. Major Scales in Action: An Introduction
10. Minor Scales, plus the complete Circle of Fifths
11. Parallel Keys: plus Tonal and Modal Degrees
12. Consonance and Dissonance
13. Ear Repertory Interval Chart
INTERMEDIATE THEORY TEXT (135 pages) includes:
1. Diatonic Triads in Major Keys
2. Transposing Melody and Harmony
3. Diatonic Triads in Minor Keys
4. Seventh Chords and Sixth Chords
4a. Organizing Your Thinking II: Seventh Chords
5. Melody, Part I: Tunes and Cadences
6. Song Structures, Parts I & II: Binary & Chorus forms and the 12-Bar Blues
7. Secondary Dominant Triad
8. Secondary Leading Tone Triad
9. The Church Modes - Modal Scales
10. Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales
11. Blues, Whole-Tone and Other Selected Scales
ADVANCED THEORY, PART I TEXT (98 pages) includes:
1. Intro. to Four-Part Voicing - Closed and Open Positions
2. Chord Progressions in Four Voices, Part I - Rules of Thumb/Types of Motion
3. Chord Progressions in Four Voices, Part II - Revoicing a Chord
4. Chord Progressions in Four Voices, Part III - Beyond Rules of Thumb
5. Introduction to Inversions - Focus on 1st Inversion and Figured Bass
5a. Four Opportunities for Analysis and Answer Sheets
6. Organizing Your Thinking III: Tonal Functions of Triads
7. Resolving the Dominant Seventh Chord
8. Non-Chord Tones, Parts I & II
9. The Six-Four Chord (2nd Inversion)
Six Summation Analysis Opportunities and Answer Sheets
ADVANCED THEORY, PART II TEXT (96 pages) includes:
10. Melody, Part Two - Themes and…
10a. Six Melodic Analysis Opportunities with Answer Sheets
11. Techniques of Melodic Development
11a. Analysis Opportunity: Invention No. 1 by J. S. Bach
12. Modulation
12a. Three Analysis Opportunities with Answer Sheets
13. Harmonic Rhythm
14. Extended Chords - Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
15. Tritone (flat 5) Substitutions
16. The Neapolitan Sixth Chord
17. Augmented Sixth Chords
All the Best,
Louis
All Theory Texts, including Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Parts I & II © 2014 by Louis Rosen. All Rights Reserved, including the right to reproduce or distribute this book or portions thereof in any form. For further information contact Louis Rosen via the contact page on this website.