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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
Singing to Memorize
Improvising
Call and response in class, p. 78
Chapter 4 – Major and Minor Songs: Extended Range
Singing to Memorize
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
Singing to Memorize
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
Singing to Memorize
Improvising
Improvising harmonies, p. 296
Improvising harmonies, p. 297
Chapter 8 – Major and minor songs with tonic, dominant, and subdominant harmonies
Singing to Memorize
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
Singing to Memorize
Improvising
Shall I Compare Thee? p. 473