SOUND PATTERNS

A Structural Examination of Tonality, Vocabulary, Texture,
Sonorities, and Time Organization in Western Art Music

by PHILLIP MAGNUSON

Table of Contents

SEMESTER I FOREWORD FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1. Tonality Chapter 2. Vocabulary Chapter 3. Texture Chapter 4. Sonorities Chapter 5. Time Organization BASIC RULES FOR SPECIES COUNTERPOINT Chapter 6. Species I in Two Voices Chapter 7. Species II in Two Voices Chapter 8. Species III in Two Voices Chapter 9. Species IV in Two Voices Chapter 10. Species V in Two Voices Chapter 11. Species I in Three Voices DIATONIC PROCEDURES I: Harmonic Dimensions Chapter 12. Transition to the Common Practice Period Chapter 13. Roman Numeral Analysis Chapter 14. Tonic and Dominant

SEMESTER III LARGER PERSPECTIVES Chapter 29. Review and Expansion Chapter 30. Harmonic and Melodic Patterns Chapter 31. The 123's of Schenkerian Analysis CHROMATIC PROCEDURES II: Modal Mixtures Chapter 32. Borrowed Chords Chapter 33. Neapolitan Triad Chapter 34. Augmented 6th Chords CHROMATIC PROCEDURES III: Advanced Vocabulary Chapter 35. Altered Dominance Chapter 36. Chromatic Mediance Chapter 37. Linear Chromaticism and Distant Keys THREE ANALYSIS PROJECTS Chapter 38. W. A. Mozart: Minuet in D Major Chapter 39. Frederic Chopin: Prelude in E Major Chapter 40. Richard Strauss: Morgen

SEMESTER II DIATONIC PROCEDURES II: Expanding the Phrase Chapter 15. Connections Chapter 16. Second Inversion Triads Chapter 17. Phrase Design DIATONIC PROCEDURES III: Substitutions Chapter 18. Tonic Substitutions Chapter 19. Dominant Substitutions CHROMATIC PROCEDURES I: Moving from the Global Key Chapter 20. Tonicizations Chapter 21. Modulations Chapter 22. Hybrid Areas THE ABC's OF CHORALE SETTING Chapter 23. A is for ANALYSIS Chapter 24. B is for BASS LINES Chapter 25. C is for COUNTERPOINT Chapter 26. D is for DIVERSITY Chapter 27. E is for EMBELLISHMENT Chapter 28. F is for FINISHING INTERSESSION PROJECTS

SEMESTER IV MICROCOSMS: Musical Styles of the Twentieth Century Chapter 41. Impressionism Chapter 42. Primitivism Chapter 43. Neo-classicism Chapter 44. Expressionism Chapter 45. Serialism Chapter 46. Jazz Chapter 47. Indeterminism Chapter 48. Texturalism Chapter 49. Minimalism Chapter 50. Electronicism Chapter 51. Neo-romanticism Chapter 52. Eclecticism APPENDICES Basic Principles of Music Notation Structural Analysis of Music Redux Composing Music Dynamics Non-traditional Scales World Music Popular Music History of Music Theory INDEX