Title: Introduction to the theory of music.
Authors: Boatwright, Howard.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 1956
Subjects: Music theory.
Contents: Intervals -- Rhythmic patterns -- Staff notation -- Note-values -- Meters -- Foreign patterns -- Syncopation -- Phrases in rhythmic outline -- Scales in general: melodic successions -- Church modes: melody-writing modeled on Gregorian Chant -- Early use of major and minor scales. Troubadour and trouvere songs -- Chromaticism -- Major and minor keys: background and terminology -- Major and minor keys: melody-writing without text, as though for instruments.