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In 3000 years humans have built some effective "maps" for navigating traditional print media. Every textbook contains a table of contents, for example, and a bookmark will show how far down the road one has traveled. Most dictionaries use tabs to show where the A's stop and the B's begin. But in a virtual course it is sometimes difficult to tell where you are or how to get to where you want to go. While this World-Wide Web site is a book, of sorts, you can't tell by looking at the homepage whether it is a big or little book. To help you get your bearings, this Table of Contents contains a hierarchical list of all pages in the course. Click on any page to go there....and remember, you can return to the Table of Contents by clicking on the compass from any other page. Next... 

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   Topics by Week
      Week 1: Contrapuntal Techniques
         Operators: Prime, Retro, Inv, Retro-Inv
         Bach: Art of Fugue Contrapunctus XII
         Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis
      Week 2: Canon
         Anatomy of a Canon
         Why Did Bach Write Canons?
         Ten Canons of the Musical Offering
         Nine Canons of the Goldberg Variations
         Fourteen Canons on the Goldberg Ground
      Week 3: Invention
         Clowning Around
         Melodic Inversion
         Contrapuntal Inversion
         Evolutio (Melodic + Contrapuntal Inversion)
      Week 4: Cantus Firmus
         The Cookie and the Quads
         CF in Long Notes
         Decorated CF
         CF in Canon
         Distributed CF
         CF with Obbligato or Ritornello
         CF with Fugue
            Stollen BWV 80
         Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch
      Week 5: Fugue Exposition
         Anatomy of a Fugue
         Fugue in C Minor (WTC Book I)
         E-Flat Major Fugue (WTC Book II)
         Cm Fugue (BWV 582)
      Week 6: Fugue Development
      Week 7: Ostinato
         Passacaglia
            Dido's Lament
            C-Minor Passacaglia (BWV 582)
            Crucifixus from the B-Minor Mass
         Chaconne
            BWV 1004 (D-Minor Chaconne for solo vn)
            BWV 150 (Last mvt Cantata 150)
         Ruggiero
            Goldberg Ground
            Goldberg Variations
      Week 8: Phrase & Period (Midterm Exam)
      Week 9: Song Forms
      Week 10: Song Form with Trio, Rondo
      Week 11: Sonata-Allegro
      Week 12: Sonatine, Theme & Variations
      Week 13: Semester Projects
      Week 14: Semester Projects
      Week 15: Light and Timbre
         Formal Filters
         Feelings
      Week 16: Final Exam
   Assignments
      Homework
         Assignment 1
         Assignment 2
         Assignment 3
         Assignment 4
         Assignment 5
         Assignment 6
         Assignment 7
         Assignment 8
         Assignment 9
         Assignment 10
      Quizzes
         Quiz 1
         Quiz 2
      Semester Projects
   Study Guides
      Quizzes
      Midterm Exam
      Final Exam