Tasks and Exercises on Elementary Music Theory

This popular textbook, created by the renowned methodologist and educator V. V. Khvostenko (1899–1979), contains extensive material for studying the course of elementary music theory.
It is intended for students of senior classes of music schools, as well as for music colleges and conservatories, and can be used in vocal departments of conservatories.

CONTENTS:
From the Author
Preface
I. Names and Notations of Sounds

• Names of Sounds
• Octaves
• Semitone, Tone, and Accidentals
• Enharmonic Equivalence of Sounds

II. Musical Notation

• Notation of Sound Durations
• Notation of Pause Durations
• Notation of Pitch of Sounds
• Notation of Two-Voice and Multi-Voice Music
• Abbreviations in Musical Notation

III. Meter and Rhythm

• Basic (Even) Division of Durations
• Special Types of Division of Durations
• Simple Meters and Time Signatures
• Compound Meters and Time Signatures
• Changing Meters and Time Signatures
• Syncopation

IV. Intervals

• Simple Intervals
• Compound Intervals
• Inversion of Intervals
• Consonant and Dissonant Intervals

V. Mode and Tonality

• Major Mode and Major Tonalities
• Minor Mode and Minor Tonalities
• Relative Major and Minor
• Degrees of Major and Minor
• Definition of Mode and Tonality

VI. Major and Minor Intervals

• Intervals of Natural Major and Natural Minor
• Augmented and Diminished Intervals of Harmonic Minor and Harmonic Major
• Resolution of Dissonant Intervals

VII. Chords

• Triads
• Inversion of Triads
• Primary Triads of Major and Minor
• Inversions of Primary Triads
• Secondary Triads of Major and Minor
• Seventh Chords
• Inversions of Seventh Chords
• Dominant Seventh Chord
• Inversions of Dominant Seventh Chord
• Leading Tone Seventh Chord
• Inversions of Leading Tone Seventh Chord
• Primary Subdominant Seventh Chord
• Inversions of Primary Subdominant Seventh Chord
• Secondary Seventh Chords of Major and Minor
• Chords in Melody
• Chords (Triads) in Four-Voice Texture

VIII. Chromaticism IX. Modulation X. Modes XI. Melody

• Melodic Motion
• Metrorhythmic and Syntactic Structure of Melody

XII. Transposition XIII. Melismas