Harmonic Analysis: A Course in the Analysis of the Chords and of the Non-harmonic Tones to be Found in Music, Classic and Modern

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O. Ditson Company, 1902 - Harmonic analysis (Music) - 130 pages
 

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Page 16 - It is difficult to lay down a hard and fast rule in cases of this kind. We have on the one hand the general principle that where the gift is absolute, and the time of payment only postponed, time, not being of the substance of the gift, but relating only to the payment, does not suspend the gift, but merely defers the payment. On the other hand, we...
Page vi - HPHIS book is designed for those who have studied Harmony and would apply it in their every-day musical life, in their playing and in their teaching. It is believed that by a careful study of this book one may learn not only to analyze and to understand anything in the way of harmony that he may chance to meet in musical literature, classical or modern, but — what is far more important — through his heightened powers of comprehension he may be enabled to hear with greater understanding , to read...
Page v - THE NONHARMONIC TONES TO BE FOUND IN MUSIC, CLASSIC AND MODERN BY BENJAMIN CUTTER Price, Post-paid, $1.25 THIS book is designed for those who have studied Harmony and would apply it in their every-day musical life, in their playing and in their teaching. It is believed that by a careful study of this book one may learn not only to analyze and to understand anything in the way of harmony that he may chance to meet in musical literature, classical or modern, but — what is far more important — through...
Page 16 - A major, to mark the many chromatic harmonies, as chromatic alterations in this key, is to strain the key unwarrantably ; they would call each apparent change of key a real change, with a mental reservation as to the correctness of the analysis ; would, perhaps, write two figurings, each one tenable, and depending on the point of view.
Page 16 - Allegro. only when the modulatory process is confirmed by a stay in its evident key ; that these seeming modulations are only intensifications of triads of the key other than the primary tonic, generally the subordinate triads, accomplished by the use of their seventh chords ; and that these chords or progressions in question are only altered chords, or progressions in the primary key, and are to be so marked.
Page 16 - They quote that most startling and familiar example — the end of the Lohengrin Prelude, by Wagner — which, while seemingly moving through, or, as they sometimes say,

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