Any errors are my own. Read each lesson up to the point where the manual explains how to do the exercises. Then, use the computer to do each exercise while referring to this manual for assistance. This course covers the fundamentals of music notation, chord spelling, chord progression, and melodic composition in tonal music. Tonal music consists of chords and melodies spelled from successive major and minor scales.
Tonal music exhibits the principles of tonic-dominant harmony.
The same scale is used to spell chords and melodies at the beginning and end of a composition. Elsewhere in the composition, other scales may be used to spell immediately successive chords and melodies. The melody and chord at each point in the music is spelled from the same major or minor scale. Each chord is spelled from alternate scale-steps of that scale. Each melodic tone is a scale-step in that scale.