The author's gratitude for valuable aid, criticisms, and suggestions is due his wife, Marion Dillon Gardner, and his sisters, Mabel Gardner Bankart and Lena Gardner Lewis.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| [PREFACE] | [iii] | |
| [I.] | RHYTHM: NOTE VALUES: TIME SIGNATURES: TEMPO | [3] |
| [II.] | THEORY OF SCALES (Major and Minor) | [10] |
| The Major Scale | [11] | |
| The Minor Scale | [21] | |
| [III.] | INTERVALS AND CHORD BUILDING | [32] |
| Inversion of Intervals | [36] | |
| Chord Construction | [38] | |
| Inversion of Triads | [40] | |
| The Seventh Chord | [41] | |
| Inversion of Seventh Chords | [43] | |
| [IV.] | EPITOMIZED ACOUSTICS | [47] |
| [V.] | EAR TRAINING | [51] |
| The Normal Intervals of the Major Scale | [52] | |
| The Normal Intervals of the Minor Scale | [55] | |
| Altered Intervals | [56] | |
| Arpeggio Chords | [60] | |
| Two Voiced Chords | [61] | |
| The Four Voiced Chord | [63] |