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INDEX OF TERMS
G Major Music Theory



These terms link either to Fundamentals Worksheet chapters or Harmonic Expansions web pages.
   Numbers after a term (for instance "12.2") refer to a page within a Fundamentals Worksheet chapter.

Numbers
5/3, 6 (or 6/3), and 6/4 chords, 12.2
6/4 Expansions

A
Accented nonharmonic tones
    in video, bottom of page
Alto clef, 14.4
Antecedent
Anticipation
Appoggiatura
Arabic numerals Arpeggiated 6/4
Asymmetric period
Augmented, see Intervals or Triads

B
Background
Bar lines, 3.2
Bass clef, 2.1
Beam, 2.4

C
Cadence Cadential 6/4
Changing Tones Chord tone, 12.6
Circle of fifths, Ch. 4 Circle progression Clef, 1.3 Common tone-stepwise (CTS) voice leading, 15.2
Common tones, 14.7 - 14.8
Consequent
Consonant skip
Continuous period
Contrary motion, 15.6
Contrary motion-nearest (CMN) voice leading, 15.7
Contrasting period

D
Deceptive cadence
Diatonic triads, 11.7
Diminished, see Intervals or Triads
Dominant, 11.3
Dominant seventh chord, Ch. 19
Dotted notes, 3.5
Double bar, 3.2
Double flats, 7.2
Double sharps, 7.3
Doubling (of chord tones), 13.3
Durations, see Notation of duration

E
Eighth note, 2.4
Embellishing tones
Enharmonics, Enharmonic equivalents, 2.8
Escape tone

F
F clef, 2.1
Figurations
Figured bass numerals
Flag, 2.4
Flat, 2.6
Foreground
Fundamental harmonic progression

G
G Clef, 1.3

H
Half cadence
Half note, 1.7
Half step, 4.1 - 4.3
Harmonic expansion
Harmonic reduction


I
Intervals, Ch. 8 Inversion of triads
K
Key, Key note, 4.5
Key signature, definition, 5.1
Key Signatures, organization & relationships Keyboard

L
Leading Tone, 11.3
Leading tone, doubling prohibition
Ledger line, 2.5
Letter names of notes
Levels of analysis
Low and high on the keyboard, 1.2
Lower neighbors

M
Major, see Scales, Key Signatures,
   Intervals, or Triads
Major scale Measures, 3.2
Mediant, 11.3
Minor, see Scales, Key Signatures,
    Intervals, or Triads
Minor scales, Ch. 6 and Ch. 7

N
Natural sign, 7.3
Neighbor 6/4
Neighbor chord
Neighbor tone Nonharmonic tones
Notehead, 1.5
Notation of duration
O
Oblique motion, 15.6
Octave, 8.1
Overlapping voices, 16.7

P
Parallel motion, 15.6
Parallel period
Passing 6/4
Passing tone Passing vii°6
Pedal 6/4
Pedal, pedal point, pedal tone
Perfect authentic cadence
Period phrase extension
plagal cadence
Pre-dominant
Primordial tonic

Q
Quarter note, 1.7

R
Rests, 3.6
Rhythm, Ch. 3
Roman numerals, 11.5
Root position, 12.1

S
SATB notation, 14.1 - 14.2
Scale degree, 4.5
Scales Seventh chords, 19.2
Sharp, 2.6
Similar motion, 15.6
Sixteenth notes, 3.4
Spacing (close and open), 14.4
Staff, 1.3
Stem, 1.7
Stem direction Subdominant, 11.3
Submediant, 11.3
Supertonic, 11.3
Suspension

T
Time signatures, 3.3
Tonic, 11.3
Treble Clef, 1.3
Triads, Ch. 10

U
Unaccented nonharmonic tones
    in video, bottom of page
Upper neighbor
Urklang

V
Vocal ranges, 16.6
Voice crossing, 16.7
Voice exchange
Voice leading, 15.1

W
Whole note, 1.7
Whole step, 4.1 - 4.3

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