Elementary Training for Musicians

Preface - Quarter-notes, half-notes, and whole-notes (and rests) - High, medium, and low tones - 2/4 and 4/4 meters - G-clef, and tones f', g', a', b' - Eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes - Tones e' and c' - 3/4 meter, dotted half-notes, ties - Tones d' and c'; octave; ledger lines; one- and two-lined octaves - Slurs; syllable division; up-beats; dynamic accents - Dotted quarter- and eighth-notes (and rests) - Small octave; major scale; # and natural; diatonic and chromatic half-tones; key signatures - Time-signatures of simple meters having the denominators 1, 2, 8, and 16; indications for slow and moderate tempi; brevis and dotted whole-notes - Three- and four-lined octaves; b - Double-dotted notes (and rests); thirty-second- and sixty-fourth-notes; indications for fast tempi - Bass clef; great octave; intervals; perfect fifth and fourth; inversions - Metric accents; meter and rhythm; cundoctors' patterns for beating time; syncopation; compound meters - Contra octrave and sub-contra octave; major and minor thirds and sixths; transposition - Triplets and other divisions by factors not implied in the time-signatures - Major and minor seconds and sevenths - Indications for changing tempi - Meters with signatures having the numerators 5, 7, etc. and corresponding patterns for beating time - Alto clef; augmented and diminished intervals; prime or unson; x and bb; enharmonic transcription; circle of fifths, circle of fourths - Indications of dynamics and expressions - Musical Form - Tenor clef; intervals exceeding the octave; doubly diminshed or augmented intervals; minor scale (all forms); Church Modes; relative major and minor; signatures of minor keys - Abbreviations; rests longer than one measure; ornaments; marks of articulation; chromatic scale - Preface to Part Two - Dictations (incl. discussion of "absolute pitch") - Index