(1) Introduction and Overview
      (a) Scope of these Lectures
(2) Epicycles
      (a) Overview
      (b) Vertical z Motions
      (c) Radial Motions
      (d) Azimuthal Motion
      (e) Values Near the Solar Neighborhood
(3) Resonances
      (a) Rotating Patterns
      (b) Corotation Resonance (CR)
      (c) Lindblad Resonances (ILR, OLR)
      (d) Importance of Resonances
(4) Density Waves
      (a) Kinematic Density Waves
      (b) Lin-Shu (QSSS) Density Wave Theory
            (i)   Motivation and Sketch of Approach
            (ii)  Results
            (iii) Remaining Problems with QSSS
      (c) Alternative Sources of Global Density Waves
            (i)   Tides
            (ii)  Bars and Oval Distortions
(5) Disk Instabilities and Amplification
      (a) Local Disk Stability : Toomre's Q Parameter
            (i)   Modified Jeans Analysis
            (ii)  Q from Disk Dispersion Relations
      (b) Swing Amplification
            (i)   The Swing Amplifier
            (ii)  Feedback for the Amplifier
      (c) Bar Instability and its Suppression
      (d) Flocculant Spirals
            (i)   Local Disk Instability
            (ii)  Self-Propagating Star Formation