The perfect text for any music theory course.  Covers the full range of music theory to modern times. Chapters include: Elements of Pitch; Elements of Rhythm; Introduction to Triads and Seventh Chords; Diatonic Chords in Major and Minor Keys; Diatonic Triads; Principles of Voice Leading; Root Position Part Writing; Harmonic Progression; Triads in First Inversion; Triads in Second Inversion; Cadences, Phrases, Periods, and Sentences; Non Chord Tones; Diatonic Seventh Chords; The V7 Chord; The II7 and VII7 Chords; Chromaticism; Secondary Functions; Modulations Using Diatonic Common Chords; Other Modulatory Techniques; Binary and Ternary Forms; Mode Mixture and the Neapolitan; Augmented Sixth Chords; Enharmonic Spellings and Enharmonic Modulations; Further Elements of the Harmonic Vocabulary; Tonal Harmony in the Late Nineteenth Century; Post-Tonal Theory; and New Directions.