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Introduction
Acknowledgments
Statement on Spotify Usage
Introduction to Western Musical Notation and Reading Pitches
Chelsey Hamm and Melanie Sehman
Drawing Notes, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
The Keyboard, Grand Staff and ASPN
Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals
Dynamics, Articulation, Tempo and Structural Markers
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; and Melanie Sehman
Notating Rhythm
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; and Bryn Hughes
Simple Meters
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; Kris Shaffer; and Melanie Sehman
Compound Meters
Major Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
Chelsey Hamm and Bryn Hughes
Intervals
AABA Form and Strophic Form
Bryn Hughes and Megan Lavengood
Minor Scales, Scale Degrees, and Key Signatures
Pentatonic and Blues
Mark Gotham; Megan Lavengood; Brian Moseley; and Kris Shaffer
Blues Melodies and the Blues Scale
Megan Lavengood
Diatonic Modes
Chelsey Hamm
Syncopation
Bryn Hughes; Megan Lavengood; Kris Shaffer; and Melanie Sehman
Swing Rhythms
Tuplets, Tresillo and Hypermeter
Mark Gotham; Chelsey Hamm; Bryn Hughes; and Melanie Sehman
Metrical Dissonance
Mark Gotham and Megan Lavengood
Blues Harmony
Triads
Triad Inversion
Samuel Brady and Chelsey Hamm
Figured Bass
Seventh Chords
Chord Symbols
Roman Numerals
Samuel Brady; Chelsey Hamm; Megan Lavengood; and Kris Shaffer
Verse-Chorus Form
Introduction to Harmonic Schemas in Pop Music
Pentatonic Harmony
Mark Gotham and Bryn Hughes
Drumbeats
Scott Hanenberg
More Scale Possibilities
Texture
Samuel Brady
Chords in SATB style
Glossary
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