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Chapter 1 – Three-Note Songs

Singing to Memorize

Improvising

The Tyger, p. 8

I Never Saw a Moor, p. 10

Chapter 2 – Pentatonic Songs

 Singing to Memorize

Improvising

The Song of Hiawatha, p. 35

Cross of Snow, p. 35

Chapter 3 – Major and Minor Songs: Five-Note

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Improvising

Call and response in class, p. 78

Chapter 4 – Major and Minor Songs: Extended Range

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Improvising

Harmonies (Christmas), p. 120

Harmonies (All Through), p. 122

Chapter 5 – Songs in Other Diatonic Modes

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Improvising

Matrix on tonic, p. 184

Matrix in Mixolydian, p. 184

Matrix in Dorian, p. 185

Chapter 6 – Major and Minor Songs with Tonic and Dominant Harmonies in Root Position

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Improvising

Matrix in major and minor, p. 237

Harmonies above and below the melody

Chapter 7 – Major and minor songs with tonic and dominant harmonies in inversions

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Improvising

Improvising harmonies, p. 296

Improvising harmonies, p. 297

Chapter 8 – Major and minor songs with tonic, dominant, and subdominant harmonies

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Improvising

Improvising harmonies, p. 354

Improvising harmonies, p. 354

Chapter 9 –Primary and secondary triads and dominant sevenths

Improvising

The Road Not Taken, p. 406

Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, p. 406

Matrix in Major, p. 407

Matrix with secondary, p. 407

Chapter 10 – Songs in other diatonic modes with primary triads

Improvising

There’s a Certain Slant of Light, p. 446

Music, When Soft Voices Die, p. 446

When I Was One-and-Twenty, p. 446

Chapter 11 – Chromatic Harmonies and Secondary Dominants

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Improvising

Shall I Compare Thee? p. 473