Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
Content
- 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
