Contents

• Preface 5
• Introduction 7
• Part I
• The theory of music.
• Sound 13
• Musical systems 20
• The Pythagorean musical system 227-8
• The old partially tempered system 2711-12
• The tempered system 2913-17
• The duration values of notes and rests 3518-23
• The staff and the clefs 4024-27
• The placement of musical notes and rests on the staff 4828-36
• The accidentals 5237-10
• The repeats 5841—43
• The performance indications 6144-50
• Rhythm and meter 65
• Simple, compound, mixed and free times 7352-55
• Characteristics in the subdivision of the beats of the meter 7856-57
• Strong and weak parts of the meter 8258-59
• Syncopation and cross-rhythm 8560-79
• The scales 8664-67
• The major scales 9068-73
• The minor scales