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See Composers' Rules of Engagement

1. Scale Materials
   • Diatonic Modes
   • Gapped Scales
   • Hybrids
   • Symmetrical Scales
     • Whole Tone
     • Octatonic
   • Tonality
   • Polytonality
   • Polymodality
   
   
2. Chords
   • Standard Progressions
     
   • Modal Progressions
     
   • Extended Tertian Chords
   • Modern Common Practice: Jazz Notation
   • Chords and Scales
     • Whole Tone Chords
     • Octatonic Chords
     • Polychords
   • Non Tertian Chords
     • Quartal (Quintal) Chords
     • Clusters
   
   
3. Rhythm
   • Asymmetrical Meter
   • Polyrhythm/polymeter
   • Ametrical (non meter)
   • Syncopation
   • Modern Common Practice: Jazz
   
   
4. Melody
   • Harmonizing Melody
   • Contour, Continuity and Reduction
   • Motive Variation
   • Motive, Phrase, Period
   
   
5. Texture
   • Choral Writing
   • Chord Streams
   • Chord Stream Polyphony
   • Genres of Texture
   • Parameters of Texture
   
   
6. Index to Traditional Forms
   
   
7. Twelve-Tone Technique
   • Set Theory
   • Twelve-Tone Composition
   
   
8. Other Techniques
   • Sound Scapes
   • Multimedia (with other art media)
   • Minimalism
   
   
9. Electronic Techniques
   • Sequencing
   • Digital Recording
   • Composing for Video and Animation
   • Composing for Electronic Multimedia
   • Computer Composition
   
   
10. Music-As-System
    
    
11. Composers and Nature
    
    
12. Affective Message and Structure
    
    

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updated 14 February 2012