Building on the solid foundation laid in the first volume, this downloadable version of eMedia Music's Music Theory Tutor Volume 2 for Windows features over 200 lessons on intermediate to advanced theory. Images, audio, and interactive tests are incorporated into the curriculum along with practical theory. The Intelligent Practice mode offers optimized, individualized practice sessions by analyzing your responses and skill levels and targeting weak areas needing improvement.
Learn about the construction of augmented and seventh chords, as well as harmonic, melodic, and natural minor scales. Examine modes, musical keys, the circle of fifths, phrasing, and more about melodic/harmonic relationships and cadences. Additionally, learn how to analyze chord function and understand chord progression theory, complex time signatures, and syncopation to help you write and perform music better than before.
Music Theory Tutor Vol. 2 shows you when you are playing or singing with the correct pitch and lets you see your progress. Many lessons let you enter pitches simply by humming, singing, or playing your instrument into the computer's microphone. Enjoy the ability to tap rhythms and sing back melodies, in addition to guessing intervals and much more. Gain confidence as you pass each music theory quiz at the end of a subject, and ace the exams at the end of every grade-level completion.
Teaches music theory with a step-by-step curriculum designed by Dr. Gregory Simon, who has a Ph.D. in music composition from University of Michigan and has taught at University of Colorado
Combines music theory lessons and ear training in one course, helping you compose, improvise, and learn more easily and effectively
Employs graphics, interactive tests, and sound to make learning easier and more enjoyable
Intelligent Practice offers optimized, individualized practice sessions by analyzing your responses and skill levels and targeting weak areas needing improvement. Tracks your progress and selects questions that help you learn and get better. Tap out the answer to a rhythm question, or hum two notes to identify an interval. Sing the notes in a melody, or play them on your instrument
Lets you view scores for each music theory quiz and other statistics to measure your progress
Provides rhythm lessons in counting and recognition of triplets, complex time signatures (3/8, 6/4, 5/4, 7/4, 5/8, and 7/8), and syncopation. Teaches you how intervals define scales and chords, and how chord cadence and inversions affect chord progressions
Offers interactive music theory lessons for learning major and minor key signatures and the circle of fifths
Training exercises enable your ear to recognize harmonic intervals, minor scale types, modes, and augmented and 7th chords
Includes lessons on harmonic, melodic, and natural minor scale construction and modes
Chord theory lessons cover construction and recognition of chords, including inversions
Lessons on chord progression theory cover chord function and cadence within progressions (tonic, dominant, subdominant, etc.), as well as Roman numeral (I, IV, V, etc.) and figured bass notation, chord substitutions, phrasing, passing, and pedal tones
Harmonic flowchart, major, minor, and two-voice harmony studies
Lessons and exercises in musical form and analysis (binary, ternary, rondo, phrasing, etc.) help you better understand composition
Solfege studies, with arpeggio and sight-singing, teach you to hear music in your head – so you'll know how a composition sounds simply by seeing the sheet music
Contents Summary
Grade 6
Rhythm
- Introduction
- Triplets in Simple Time
- Triplets in Simple Time (part 2)
- Triplets in Simple Time (part 3)
- Triplets in Simple Time (part 4)
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping
- Syncopation
- 3/8 Time Signature
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 2
- 6/4 Time Signature
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 3
- Rhythm Workshop
- Exercise: Rhythm Imitation
- Review: Time Signatures
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Melody
- Introduction
- Key Signatures
- Order of Flats and Sharps
- Order of Flats and Sharps (part 2)
- F Major Key Signature
- d minor Key Signature
- Exercise: Sight Singing
- G Major Key Signature
- e minor Key Signature
- Exercise: Sight Singing 2
- Melodic Intervals Review
- Exercise: Interval Singing
- Harmonic Intervals
- Harmonic Intervals (part 2)
- Exercise: Harmonic Interval Recognition
- Melody Workshop
- Exercise: Melody Imitation
- Review: Key Signatures
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Harmony
- Introduction
- Exercise: Chord Recognition
- Chord Function - Supertonic
- Chord Function - Supertonic (part 2)
- Chord Function - Submediant
- Chord Function - Submediant (part 2)
- Chord Function - Submediant (part 3)
- Exercise: Chord Progressions
- Perfect and Imperfect Authentic Cadences
- Half Cadence
- Deceptive Cadence
- Exercise: Cadence Recognition
- Inversions
- Inversions (part 2)
- Exercise: Inversion Recognition
- Figured Bass
- Figured Bass (part 2)
- Figured Bass (part 3)
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Grade 7
Rhythm
- Introduction
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping
- Odd Meters
- 5/4 Time Signature
- 7/4 Time Signature
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 2
- Rhythm Workshop
- Rhythm Workshop (part 2)
- Exercise: Rhythm Imitation
- Review: Odd Meters
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Melody
- Introduction
- Review: Key Signatures
- Minor Scale Types
- Natural Minor
- Harmonic Minor
- Melodic Minor
- Exercise: Scale Singing
- Exercise: Scale Recognition
- Bb Major Key Signature
- g minor Scale
- Remembering Keys: Flats
- Exercise: Sight Singing
- Harmonic Intervals
- Harmonic Intervals (part 2)
- Exercise: Harmonic Interval Recognition
- Melody Workshop
- Exercise: Melody Imitation
- Review: Minor Scale Types
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Harmony
- Introduction
- First Inversion Chords
- Arpeggiation
- Substitution
- Exercise: Inversion Recognition
- Augmented Triads
- Triads Review
- Exercise: Chord Recognition
- Chord Function - Leading Tone
- Chord Function - Leading Tone (part 2)
- Chord Function - Leading Tone (part 3)
- Exercise: Chord Progressions
- Phrasing
- Phrasing (part 2)
- Phrasing (part 3)
- Phrasing (part 4)
- Binary Form
- Review: First Inversion Functions
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Grade 8
Rhythm
- Introduction
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping
- Quarter Note Triplets
- Quarter Note Triplets (part 2)
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 2
- Rhythm Workshop
- Eighth-Based Odd Meters
- 5/8 Time Signature
- 7/8 Time Signature
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 3
- Rhythm Workshop (part 2)
- Exercise: Rhythm Imitation
- Review: Odd Meters
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Melody
- Introduction
- Review: Key Signatures
- D Major Key Signature
- b minor Scale
- Remembering Keys: Sharps
- Review: Note Tendencies
- Harmonic Intervals
- Exercise: Harmonic Interval Recognition
- Exercise: Interval Singing
- Review: Minor Scales
- Exercise: Scale Recognition
- Exercise: Sight Singing
- Melody Workshop
- Exercise: Melody Imitation
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Harmony
- Introduction
- Exercise: Chord Recognition
- Ternary Form
- Ternary Form (part 2)
- Rondo Form
- Rondo Form (part 2)
- Seventh Chords
- Seventh Chord Qualities
- Major Seventh
- Minor Seventh
- Dominant Seventh
- Identifying Seventh Chords
- Exercise: Chord Recognition 2
- Second Inversion Functions
- Cadential 6/4
- Passing 6/4
- Pedal 6/4
- Exercise: Inversion Recognition
- Dominant Seventh Function (V7)
- Exercise: Chord Progressions
- Review: Second Inversions
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Grade 9
Rhythm
- Introduction
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping
- Advanced Triplets in Simple Time
- Advanced Triplets in Simple Time (part 2)
- Advanced Triplets in Simple Time (part 3)
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 2
- Rhythm Workshop
- Exercise: Rhythm Sight Tapping 3
- Rhythm Workshop (part 2)
- Exercise: Rhythm Imitation
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Melody
- Introduction
- Eb Major Key Signature
- c minor Scale
- A Major Key Signature
- f# minor Scale
- Exercise: Scale Recognition
- Harmonic Intervals Review
- Exercise: Harmonic Interval Recognition
- Exercise: Interval Singing
- Modes
- Modes (part 2)
- Modes (part 3)
- Two Voice Melodies
- Two Voice Melodies (part 2)
- Exercise: Sight Singing
- Melody Workshop
- Melody Workshop (part 2)
- Exercise: Melody Imitation
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz
Harmony
- Introduction
- Exercise: Inversion Recognition
- Seventh Chord Review
- Diminished Seventh Chord
- Half-diminished Seventh Chord
- Exercise: Chord Recognition
- Inverted 7th (Harmony)
- Circle of Fifths
- Circle of Fifths (part 2)
- Chord Function - Mediant
- Chord Function - Mediant (part 2)
- Chord Function - Mediant (part 3)
- Harmonic Flowchart
- Chord Function - Supertonic Seventh
- Hearing Seventh Chords
- Exercise: Chord Recognition 2
- Harmonies in Minor
- Harmonies in Minor (part 2)
- Exercise: Chord Progressions
- Before the Quiz
- Quiz