Includes indexes.

Part I. The primary materials and procedures

Key, scales, and modes

Intervals

Rhythm and meter

Triads and seventh chords

Introduction to counterpoint

Procedures of four-part writing

Part II. I-V-I and its elaborations

I, V, and V⁷

I⁶, V⁶, and VII⁶

Inversions of V⁷

Leading to V : IV, II, and II⁶

The cadential ⁶₄

VI and IV⁶

Supertonic and subdominant seventh chords

Other uses of IV, IV⁶, and VI

V as a key area

III and VII

Part III. ⁵₃, ⁶₃, and ⁶₄ techniques

⁵₃-chord techniques

Diatonic sequences

⁶₃-chord techniques

⁶₄-chord techniques

Part IV. Elements of figuration

Melodic figuration

Rhythmic figuration

Part V. Dissonance and chromaticism I

Leading-tone seventh chords

Mixture

Remaining uses of seventh chords

Applied V and VII

Diatonic modulation

Part VI. Dissonance and chromaticism II

Seventh chords with added dissonance

The Phrygian II (Neapolitan)

Augmented sixth chords

Other chromatic chords

Chromatic voice-leading techniques

Chromaticism in larger contexts

Appendix I. Keyboard progressions

Appendix II. Score reduction

Appendix III. Roman numerals and registers ; explanatory tables and charts