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Chapter One The staff, treble and bass clefs, introduction to rhythm and meter, simple quadruple meter, the repeat sign Chapter Two The keyboard, accidentals, octave designation, rests, ties, dotted quarter notes, syncopation, the anacrusis Chapter Three The major scale, major key signatures up to four sharps and flats, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes Chapter Four Remaining major keys, the tonic triad, tendency tones, triplets Chapter Five The natural minor scale, eight- and two-based simple meter Chapter Six The harmonic and melodic minor scales, the tonic triad and tendency tones in minor keys, compound meter Chapter Seven Major, minor, perfect, diminished, augmented, doubly-diminished, and doubly-augmented intervals, inversion, enharmonic intervals, compound intervals Chapter Eight Triad structure, quality, inversions, and identification, sixteen- and four-based compound meter Chapter Nine Diatonic triads in major and minor keys, harmony, labeling triads in music (Roman numeral analysis), diatonic triad functions, irregular meter, tuplets, hemiola Appendices Alto and tenor clefs Singing pitch names Chromatic solfege Modes Seventh chords