Lesson 1: Major Scales
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Music Theory Notes
Lecture notes from Seth Monahan's Music Theory course on YouTube.
Resources: Toby Rush's Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (63-page visual cheat sheet) · musictheory.net (interactive lessons)
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Lesson 2: Key Signatures
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Lesson 3: Minor Scales
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Lesson 4: Intervals
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Lesson 5: All About Triads
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Lesson 6: What is Figured Bass?
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Lesson 7: Combining Triads and Figured Bass
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Lesson 8: Seventh Chords
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Lesson 9: Numbers in Music Theory—Roman Numerals, Scale Degrees, Chord Degrees, Figured Bass
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Lesson 10: Introduction to Non-Chord Tones
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Lesson 11: Classical Cadences
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Lesson 12: Sentences and Periods
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Lesson 13: Classical Cadence Games
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Lesson 14: Voice Leading in Keyboard Style
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Lesson 15: Resolving V7 to I
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Lesson 16: Building Your Vocabulary
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Lesson 17: Introduction to Harmonic Function
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Lesson 18: Doing Analysis the Right Way
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Lesson 19: Using Inverted Dominants
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Lesson 20: The Subdominant Function
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Lesson 21: Three Uses of The Submediant
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Lesson 22: Listening Below the Surface
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Lesson 23: Using Figured Bass to Show Non-Chord Tones
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Lesson 24: The Cadential Six-Four
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Lesson 25: Leading-Tone Seventh Chords
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Lesson 26: Applied Chords to V
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Lesson 27: Passing V6 in Major
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Lesson 28: The Lament Bass
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Lesson 29: Tonic Pedal Points
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Lesson 30: Applied Chords to IV
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Lesson 31: The "Quiescenza"
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Lesson 32: Common-Tone Diminished Sevenths
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Lesson 33: III and VII in Minor
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Lesson 34: How Modulation Works
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Lesson 35: Augmented Sixth Chords
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Lesson 36: The Neapolitan Sixth
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