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A dictionary of musical terms, 1891
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1Novello, Ewer & Co.'s Music Primers
2Edited by Dr. Stainer.
4PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.
6HARMONY
7BY
8DR. STAINER.
10CONTENTS.
12Subjects included in the study of Harmony: Scales, Intervals, Chords, Progressions—The different kinds of Scales: Diatonic, Chromatic, Enharmonic—Variety of forms of Minor Scale—Relation of Scales—Diagram of Division of Scales—Key—Relation of Keys—Cycle of Keys—Method of reckoning and naming Intervals—Major, Minor, and Diminished Intervals—Table of Diminished Sevenths—Simple and Compound Intervals—Diagram of threefold Division of Intervals—The Construction of Chords—Common Chords—Rules governing the Succession of Common Chords—Examples and Exercises.—Inversion of Chords—Figuring of Chords—Distribution of Parts—Treatment of Leading-Note—Examples and Exercises.—Different kinds of Motion—Rules governing the filling in of Bass Parts—Examples and Exercises.—Analysis of Simple Harmony—Chorals to be Analysed—Chord of the Dominant Seventh—Its inversions—Their figuring and treatment—False relation—Examples and Exercises.—Suspensions—Suspension of nine to eight—Inversions of nine to eight—Examples and Exercises.—Chord of Dominant Ninth—Its inversions, treatment, and figuring—Examples and Exercises.—Suspension of four to three—Its resolutions and inversions—Dominant Eleventh—Its inversions and resolutions—Suspended Leading-Note—Its resolutions and inversions—Examples and Exercises.—Double Suspensions—Triple Suspensions—Examples and Exercises.—Different Triads—Their nature and treatment—Chords of the Augmented Sixth—Suspension six-four to five-three on the Tonic—Six to five on Dominant—Neapolitan Sixth—Passing-Notes, Diatonic and Chromatic—Cadences—Attendant or Relative Keys—Modulation—Exercises.—Conclusion.
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