Music Theory Index

This index covers the topics that are covered in the theory books. It is subdivided by the book number. To find the respective topic click the respective book and advance to the indicated page number.

Adagio pg. 20
Allegro pg. 20
Andante pg. 20
Articulation pg. 23, pg. 25
Common Time pg.28
Crecendo pg. 21
Cut Time pg.28
Damper Pedal pg. 4
Digital Piano pg. 2
Diminuendo pg. 21
Dominant pg. 8
Duration pg. 25
Dynamic Markings pg. 21
Dynamics pg. 25
Enharmonic pg. 26
Enlish Prefixes pg. 17
Finale pg. 26, pg. 29
Fingering pg. 6
Forte pg. 21
Fortissimo pg. 21
Grand Piano pg.2
Grand Staff pg. 14
Harpsichord pg. 3
Intervals pg. 11
Italian Prefixes pg. 18
Italian Suffixes pg. 18
Key pg.26
Key Signatures pg.27
Keyboard Pitch Layout pg. 13
Latin Numbers pg. 16
Leading Tone pg. 8
Ledger Lines pg. 15
Legato pg. 23
Major Scale pg. 7
Marcato pg. 23
March Time pg. 29
Martelato pg. 23
Meter pg.28
Metronome pg. 30
Mezzo Forte pg.21
Mezzo Piano pg.21
Moderato pg. 20
Note Markers pg. 12
Note Mnemonics pg. 14
Note Propertiers pg. 25
Note Values pg. 2
Pianissimo pg. 21
Piano Notes Chart pg. 10
Piano pg. 21
Pianos, types of pg. 2
Pitch pg. 25
Portato pg. 24
Slurs pg. 22
Staccatissimo pg. 23
Staccato pg. 23
Sync pg. 30
Synchronize pg. 30
Tempo Markings pg. 20
Tempo pg. 25
Tenuto pg. 23
Ties pg. 22
Time Signature p. 28
Tonic pg. 8
Triplets pg. 2
Upright Piano pg. 2
Waltz Time pg. 28
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Accidentals pg. 26
Accompaniment pg. 12
Arpeggio pg. 27
Augmented Chord pg. 18
Authentic Cadence pg. 30
Beam pg. 5
Cadence pg.30
Chord Inversions pg. 16
Chord Progression pg. 18
Chord Types pg. 18
Chords pg. 12
Chords Wide Narrow  pg. 20
Circle of Fifths pg. 19
Consonance pg. 26
Damper Pedal pg. 2
Deceptive Cadence pg. 30
Diminished Chord pg. 18
Dissonance pg. 26
Dominant 7th Chord pg. 19
Dots pg. 5
Eight Note pg. 8
Flags pg. 6
Grand Staff Guide pg. 21
Half Cadence pg. 30
Half Note pg. 7
Harmonization pg. 12
Interval pg. 26
Inversion 1st pg. 16
Inversion 2nd pg 16
Leading Tone pg. 19
Major Chord pg. 18
Melody pg. 12
Minor Chord p. 18
Minor Sacle Melodic pg.23
Minor Scale Harrmonic pg. 23
Minor Scale Natural pg. 22
Motif pg. 24
Musical Notes pg.5
Note Head pg. 5
Organ Point pg. 4
Pedal Overuse pg. 4
Phrase pg. 24
Piano Pedals pg. 2
Plagal Cadence pg. 30
Quarter Note pg. 7
Root Position pg. 16
Sept-Chord pg. 18
Sequence pg. 25
Sixteenth Note pg. 8
Sixth Chord pg. 18
Slash Chord pg. 17
Slur pg. 11
Soft Pedal pg. 3
Sostenuto Pedal pg. 3
Stem pg. 5
Suspemded Chord pg. 18
Sustain Pedal pg. 2
Target Note 13
Theme pg. 24
Through Note 13
Tie pg. 11
Tonal Phrase pg. 30
Tres Cordas pg. 3
Triad pg. 16
Una Corda pg. 3
Whole Note pg. 5
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Advanced Theory
Accelerando pg. 14
Acciaccatura pg. 5 and pg. 13
Accidentals pg. 4
Appoggiatura pg. 5 and pg. 13
Blocked Chord pg. 33
Blues 12 Bars pg. 29
Blues Rhythm pg. 29
Blues Scale pg. 20
BPM pg. 14
Broken Chord pg. 33
Chord Inversions pg. 36
Chord Progression II-V-I pg. 19
Chromatic pg. 3
Circle of Fifths pg. 2
Coda pg. 6
Composer Timeline pg. 8
Diatonic pg.  3
Dominant pg. 9
Double Flat pg. 4
Double Sharp pg. 4
Enharmonic Keys pg. 2
Enharmonic pg. 12
Fake Book pg. 36
Flat pg. 4
Fuga pg. 11
Grace Notes pg. 5
Homophony pg. 11
II-V-I Progression pg. 21
Inversions pg. 17
Jazz pg. pg. 17
Jazz Styles pg. 22
Jazz Timeline pg. 24
Lead Sheet Chor Symbols pg. 36
Lead Sheet pg. 31
Lead Sheet Playing pg. 33
Leading Tone pg. 9
Mediant pg. 9
Mordent pg. 13
Natural pg. 4
Ornaments pg. 13
Ostinato pg. 25
Polyphonic pg. 11
Primary Chords pg. 9
Ragtime pg. 10
Rallentando pg. 14
Riff pg. 25
Ritardando pg. 14
Rubate pg. 15
Scale Degree pg. 9
Secondary Chords pg. 9
Seventh Chords pg. 38
Sharp pg. 4
Simple Triad pg. 36
Stride Pattern pg. 10
Sub Mediant pg. 9
Sub Mediant pg. 9
Supertonic pg. 9
Syncopation pg. 26
Tempo Variations pg. 14
Timeline pg. 7
Tonic pg. 9
Transposition pg. 16
Triards pg. 17
Trill pg. 13
Turns pg. 13
Walking Bass pg. 30
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Accaccatura pg. 26
Accent pg. 20
Accidentals pg. 12
Appoggiatura pg. 26
Arpeggio pg. 20
Bar Line pg. 3
Beamed Notes pg. 11
Brace pg. 4
Chord pg. 20
Clef pg. 4
Coda pg. 29
Common Tile pg. 16
Crecendo pg. 29
Cut Time pg. 17
Da Capo pg. 28
Dal Segno pg. 28
Dal Segno pg. 28
Diminuendo pg.30
Dotted Notes pg. 11
Double Flat pg. 13
Double Sharp pg.14
Double Whole Note pg. 10
Fermata pg. 23
Flat pg. 12
Forte pg. 30
Forte Piano pg. 33
Fortissimo pg. 32
Fortississimo pg.32
Glissando pg. 19
Inverted Mordent pg. 24
Inverted Turn pg. 25
Key Signature pg. 15
Ledger Lines pg. 2
Marcato pg. 21
Marcato Strong pg. 22
Measures pg. 3
Metronome Mark pg. 17
Mezzo Forte pg. 31
Mezzo Piano pg. 31
Mordent pg. 24
Multi-Measure Rest pg. 12
Natural pg. 14
Note Relationships pg. 18
Notes pg. 6
Ornaments pg. 23
Pianisissimo pg. 32
Pianissimo pg.31
Piano pg. 30
Repeat pg. 27
Rests pg. 6
Segno pg. 29
Sforzando pg. 33
Sharp pg. 13
Simile pg. 27
Simple Time pg. 16
Slur pg. 18
Staccatissimo pg. 21
Staccato pg. 21
Staff pg. 2
Tablature pg. 5
Tenuto pg. 22
Tie pg. 18
Tremolo pg. 26
Trill pg. 23
Tuplet pg. 19
Turn pg. 24
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50s Progression pg. 10
Air pg. 24
Allemande pg. 25
Arabesque pg. 23
Aria pg. 24
Arioso pg. 24
Badinerie pg. 21
Bagatelle pg. 23
Bass Tone Inversions pg.2
Blues Changes pg. 9
Bourree pg. 25
British Note Values pg. 5
Canon pg. 20
Cantata pg. 19
Cantus Firmus pg. 6
Chaconne pg. 21
Chord Progression pg. 7
Circle Progressions pg. 11
Damper Pedal pg. 30
Ecossaise pg. 23
Etude pg. 23
Fantasia pg. 20
Formants pg 31
Fugue pg. 18 and pg. 20
Gavotte pg. 25
Gigue pg. 25
Harmonisc pg. 28
Harmonizing the Scale pg. 11
Impromptu pg. 22
Intermezzo pg. 23
Loure pg. 25
Minuet pg. 25
Modal Chord Progressions pg. 12
Modulation pg. 15 and pg. 16
Moment Musicaux pg. 22
Musette pg. 26
Musical Forms pg. 19
Nocturne pg. 22
Parallel Voicing pg. 27
Passacaglia pg. 21
Passepied pg. 26
Prelude pg. 20
Quart Sixth Chord pg. 3
Recitative pg. 24
Resonance pg. 28
Rhapsody pg. 20
Rigaudon pg. 26
Rondo pg. 20
Sarabande pg. 25
Scherzo pg. 21
Second Chord pg. 4
Simple Chord Progressions pg.8
Sixth Chord pg. 2
Sonata pg. 19
Sonatina pg. 19
Suite pg. 21
Sustain Pedal pg. 30
Sympathetic Resonance pg. 28
Tambourin pg.26
Temporary Modulation pg. 15
Three Chor Progressions pg. 8
Toccata pg. 22
Tonicization pg. 16
Transition pg. 16
Voices pg. 31
Waltz pg. 22
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Bass Clarinet pg. 14
Bass Drum pg. 26
Bass Trombone pg. 21
Bassoon pg. 15
Blower pg. 34
Brass pg. 2 and pg. 18
Bridge pg. 3
Castanets pg. 24
Cello pg. 5
Choir pg. 35
Clarinet pg. 13
Console pg. 37
Contrabassoon pg. 16
Couplers pg. 37
Crecendo Pedal pg. 37
Cymbals pg. 29
Divisions pg. 34
Double Bass pg. 6
Electric Pneumatic pg.36
Embouchure pg. 18
English Horn pg. 12
Flute pg. 9
French Horn pg. 22
Gedackt pg. 37
Gong pg. 28
Great pg. 35
Harp pg. 7
Manual pg. 33
Mouthpiece pg.8
Mutes pg. 18
Oboe pg. 11
Orchestra Instruments pg. 2
Overtones pg. 18
Pedal pg. 33 and pg. 35
Percussion pg. 2 and pg. 24
Piano pg. 31
Piccolo pg. 10
Pipe Organ pg. 33
Pipes pg. 34
Pistons pg. 36
Pistons pg. 36
Pitch pg. 33
Ranks pg. 37
Rattles pg. 24
Reeds pg. 8
Saxophone pg. 17
Shades pg. 36
Snare Drum pg. 25
Solo pg, 35
Stops pg. 34 and pg. 35
Strings pg. 2
Swell pg. 35
Tabourine pg. 24
Timpany pg. 24
Tracker pg. 36
Triangle pg. 27
Trombone pg. 20
Trumpet pg. 19
Tuba pg. 23
Valve pg. 33
Valves pg. 18
Vibraphone pg. 30
Viola pg. 4
Violin pg. 3
Wind-Chest pg.34
Woodwinds pg. 2 and pg. 8
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12-Bar Blues pg. 11
ABA pg. 2
Action pg. 24
African Rhythms pg. 15
Bartolome Christofori pg. 23
Blues pg. 15
Blues Rhythm pg. 11
Bold pg. 10
Boogie-Woogie pg. 15
Cantata pg. 2
Chromatic pg. 13
Contrapuntual pg. 20
Decay pg. 31
Development pg. 4
Diatonic pg. 13
Downbeat pg. 6
Dynamic Markings pg. 12
Dynamics pg. 24
Escapement Mechanism pg. 27
Exposition pg. 3
Expressiveness pg. 31
Font pg. 10
Grand Piano pg. 21
Hammer Nonlinearity pg. 31
Hammer Size pg. 29
Hammers pg. 25 and pg. 29
Harmonic Analysis pg. 17
Harpsichord pg. 19
Heterophonic pg. 16
Homophonic pg. 17
Homorhythmic pg. 15
II-V-I  Chord Progression
Inharmonicity pg. 31
Interval Content pg. 4
Italics pg. 10
Jazz pg. 15 and pg. 16
Key pg. 8
Lowest Note pg. 25
Melodic Line pg. 15
Metronome pg. 8
Monophonic pg. 17
Movement og. 2
Musical Texture pg. 17
Octave Streching pg. 31
Partial pg. 30
Piano Action pg.28
Plectrum pg. 20
Polyphonic pg. 17
Psychoacoustics
Pythagorean Scaling pg.26
Ragtime pg. 15
Range of Keyboard pg. 31
Recapitulation pg. 5
Reflection pg. 3
Rhythmic Stability pg. 8
Rubato pg. 20
Scaling pg. 26
Serif pg. 10
Sonata pg, 2
Soundboard pg. 21
Strings pg. 26
Syncopation pg. 6
Tone Color pg.30
Transposition pg. 9
Upbeat pg. 6
Walking Bass pg., 15
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Accordion pg, 2
AGO pg. 26
Cabinets pg. 15
Celeste pg. 2
Choir Organ pg. 15
Combinations pg. 11
Console pg. 13
Coordination pg. 31
Coupler pg. 14
Diapason pg. 18
Diapason pg. 8
Electronic Organ pg. 2
Fatar pg. 27
Flute pg. 8
Gedackt pg. 19
Gemshorn pg. 19
Great Organ pg. 10
Harpsichord pg. 2
Hauptwerk pg. 24
Keyboard Family pg. 2
Key-Slip pg. 27
Larigot pg. 19
Loudness pg. 11
Manuals pg. 12
Metzler Organ pg. 25
MIDI pg. 24
Mixture pg. 19
Mixture pg. 9
Music Lab pg.26
Nasard pg. 20
Nasard pg. 20
Oboe pg. 20
Octave pg. 20
Organ pg. 2
Organ Pipes pg. 5
Pedal Organ pg. 10
Pedalboard pg. 27
Piano pg. 2
Piccolo pg. 20
Pipe Arrangement pg. 16
Pipe Organ pg. 2 and pg. 3
Pipe Organ Stops pg. 17
Poblet Abbey pg. 24
Posaune pg. 20
Presence pg. 31
Principal pg, 18
Rank pg. 6
Reed pg. 9
Salicional pg. 21
Sample Set pg. 24
Stacked Manuals pg. 27
Stops pg. 5
Swell Box pg. 12
Swell Organ pg. 10
Swell Pedal pg. 12
Swell Shoe pg. 26 and pg. 29
Swell Shutters pg. 15
Theatre Organ pg. 23
Thumb Pistons og. 27
Toe Studs pg. 26 and pg. 29
Touch Screen pg. 31
Trumpet pg. 21
Trumpet pg. 8
Trumpete en Chamade pg. 21
Viola pg. 8
Vox Humana pg. 22
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Intermediate Theory
Advanced Theory
Abbreviations pg. 24
Accelleration pg. 4
Accidentals pg. 26
Aeolian pg. 13
Agitation pg. 2
Alterations pg. 24
Bass Pedal Point pg. 29
Cadences pg. 2
Cadential 6/4 pg. 27
Chromatic Scale pg. 10
Circle of Fifths pg. 5
Clutter pg. 24
Deceptive pg. 3
Dominant pg. 5
Dorian pg. 13
Double Pedal Point pg.30
Figure Bass pg. 21
First Inversion pg. 21
Five-Three Position pg. 22
Half Cadence pg. 4
Harmonic Minor Scale pg. 7
Imperfect pg. 3
Inner Pedal Point pg. 30
Interrupted Cadence pg. 28
Interval pg. 26
Inverted Pedal Point pg. 30
Ionian pg. 13
Ladder pg. 5
Leadinmg Tone pg. 5
Locrian pg. 13
Major Scale pg. 6
Mediant pg. 5
Melodic Minor Scale pg. 7
Mixolydian pg. 13
Modes pg.5
Music Modes pg.13
Napolitan Six pg. 20
Natutral Minor Scale pg. 7
Notation pg. 23
Pedal Point pg. 29
Pentatonic Scale pg. 12
Perfect pg. 3
Phrygian pg. 13
Plagal pg. 3
Quartsix Chord pg. 20
Relative Minor pg, 8
Repeated Tonic pg. 30
Resolving Tension pg. 29
Response pg. 2
Rhythmic Process pg.2
Roman Numerals pg. 21
Root Position pg. 21
Scales pg. 5
Second Inversion pg. 21
Semitone pg. 6
Sixth Chord
Subdominant pg. 5
Submediant pg. 5
Supertonic pg. 5
Suspension pg. 27
Sustaned Anchor pg. 29
Tension pg. 29
Tone pg. 6
Tonic pg. 5
Triad pg. 21
Whole Tone Scale pg. 11
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Also Sprach Zarathustra pg. 15
Bach J.S. pg 2
Baroque (red) pg. 31
Baroque Era pg. 2
Beach Amy pg. 22
Beethoven Ludwig van pg. 4
Bernstein Leonard pg. 29
Chopin Frederic pg. 20
Clair de Lune pg. 7
Classical (yellow) pg.31
Classical Era pg. 3
Composers pg.2
Danse Macabre pg. 18
Debussy Claude pg. 7
Dvorak Antonin pg.26
Einstein on the Beach pg. 28
Elgar Edward pg. 12
Enigma Variations pg. 12
Four Seasons pg.7
Gaelic Symphony pg.22
Glass Philip pg. 28
Hallelujah pg. 6
Handel G.F. pg. 6
Harpsichordist pg. 2
Harry Potter pg. 30
Haydn Josef pg. 10
Hungarian Dance No. 5 pg. 25
Johannes Brahms pg. 25
Jurassic Park pg. 30
La Traviata pg. 13
L’Orfeo pg. 5
Mahler Gustav pg. 16
Mariage of Figaro pg. 3
Mendelssohn Felic pg. 23
Midsummer Night’s Dream pg. 23
Modern (purple) pg. 31
Monteverdi Claudio pg. 5
Mozart W.A. pg. 3
Nocturnes pg. 20
Nutcracker pg. 9
Organist pg. 2
Rachmaninov pg. 27
Romantic (green) pg.31
Romantic Era pg. 4
Saint-Saens pg. 18
Schubert Franz pg. 17
Schumann Robert pg. 11
Second Waltz pg. 24
Shostakovich Dimitri pg. 24
Slavonic Dances pg. 26
Strauss Richard pg. 15
Stravinsky Igor pg.19
Tchaikowsky P.I. pg. 9
The Bells pg. 27
The Firebird pg. 19
The Lark Ascending pg. 21
Timeline of Composers pg. 31
Tristan and Isolde pg. 14
Verdi Giuseppe pg. 13
Vivaldi Antonio pg. 7
Wagner Richard pg.14
Waltzes pg. 20
Well Tempered Clavier pg. 2
West Side Story pg. 29
William John pg. 30
Williams Vaughan pg. 20
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 Other Progressions pg. 22
4-part Harmony pg. 13
Arpeggiating Triads pg. 6
Bad Parallel Motion pg. 27
Bad Parallels pg. 22
Bad Parallels pg. 22
Badness by Contrary pg. 22
Bass Line pg. 13
Bass Line Upper Voices pg. 13
Bass Lines pg. 2
Beginning and Ending pg. 9
Big Leaps pg. 5
Cantus Firmus pg. 2
Climax pg. 6
Closed Voicing pg. 15
Common Mistakes pg. 29
Common Tone pg. 20
Common Tone Procedure pg. 20
Contrary Motion pg. 10
Convert Voicing pg. 18
Counterpoint pg. 2
Direct Fifths pg. 28
Direct Octaves pg. 28
Displacement pg. 31
Doubling Leading Tone pg. 31
Doubling pg. 14
Doubling the Root pg. 24
Error Finding pg. 19
Every Pair of Voices pg. 26
Fake Parallels pg. 27
First Species pg. 4
Frustrated Leading Tone pg. 30
Good Parallel Motion pg. 27
Harmonic Rules pg. 4
I-V-I progressions pg. 20
Keyboard Style pg. 14
Leading Tone Rules pg. 30
Leaps pg. 28
Legal Vertical Intervals pg. 4
Making each Triad pg. 24
Melody Rules pg. 5
Motion Rules pg. 25
Motion Rules pg. 7
Next Closest V_Chord pg. 21
One-to One rhythmic ratio pg. 4
Open Voicing pg. 15 and pg. 19
Opposite Direction pg. 6
Ottman Sprinkles pg. 24
Parellel Motion pg. 10
Proper Spacing pg. 25
Repetition pg. 6
Root Position pg. 13
Rotations pg. 21
SATB pg. 14
Spacing Error pg. 16
Spacing pg. 13 and 16
Stepwise Connections pg. 5
Streaming pg. 31
Style pg. 16
Switching Styles pg. 17
Third to Third pg. 23
Two-Voice Species pg. 4
Upper Lines pg. 3
Voice Crossing pg. 6
Voice Exchange pg. 10
Voice Leading pg. 20
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Altered Chord pg. 15
Analyzing Modulations pg. 15
Circle of Fifths pg. 23
Classical Composers pg. 23
Closely Related pg. 17
Come back “Home” pg. 28
Common Chord pg. 15 and pg. 17
Common Notes pg. 9
Common Tone Modulations pg. 15
Common Tone pg. 18
Composers and Modulation pg. 26
Congretional Playing pg. 5
Definitive Cadence pg. 4
Diminished  Chords pg. 26
Direct Modulation pg. 28
Direct pg. 17
Early Jazz Modulation pg. 28
Enharmonic pg. 18
Foreign Related pg. 17
Gradual Modulation pg. 28
Half Step Modulation pg. 5
Implied pg. 18
Intermediate Pivot Chord pg. 19
Minor Harmonic Scale pg. 2
Minor Seventh Modulation pg. 8
Minor Sixth Modulation pg. 7
Minor Third Modulation pg. 6
Modulated pg. 2
Modulation Guide pg. 20 and 21
Modulation pg.2 and pg. 16
Modulation to any Key pg. 9
Momentary pg. 2
Parallel Key pg. 17
Passing Through pg. 2
Perfect Fifth Modulation pg. 7
Perfect Fourt Modulation pg. 5
Phrase pg. 18
Pivot Bracket pg. 4
Pivot Chord pg. 4
Pop Songs Modulations pg. 28
Progression V-I
Ragtime Modulation pg. 29
Related Keys pg. 19
Relative pg. 17
Resolve Suspension pg. 9
Scott Joplin pg. 30
Subdominant Key pg. 30
Sustained pg. 2
Ternary Structure pg. 30
Tonality and Modulation pg. 16
Tonicization pg. 4
Transpose pg. 9
Trio pg. 30
Up a Half Step pg. 9
Up a Major Seventh pg. 14
Up a Major Sixth pg. 5
Up a Major Third pg. 11
Up a Minor Seventh pg. 14
Up a Minor Sixth pg. 13
Up a Minor Third pg. 10
Up a Pefect Fourth pg. 11
Up a Perfect Fifth pg. 12
Up a Tritone pg. 12
Up a Whole Step pg. 10
Whole-Step Modulation pg. 5
Worship Music pg. 5
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