First Year Harmony (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Tapper, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330088107 ISBN 13 : 9781330088104

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

First Year Harmony by Thomas Tapper is a clear, step‑by‑step introduction to musical harmony for beginners. This classic text guides readers through the fundamentals of intervals, scales, chords, and voice leading with practical exercises and demonstrations.

The book emphasizes active practice: listening, thinking, and creating in tone, not just reading theory. It covers major and minor scales, key signatures, and the notation readers will use in real music making. Readers learn how to build and analyze triads, cadences, and chord progressions, with a strong focus on developing an inner ear and reliable technique. The lessons progress from preparatory knowledge to more advanced harmony topics, including four‑part writing, inversions, seventh chords, and common embellishments like passing tones and suspensions.

You will discover:

• Foundational concepts: intervals, scale forms, and tonal harmony.


• Practical training: singing, playing, and writing exercises in multiple voices.


• Chord structures and progressions used in classical harmony.


• Techniques for ear training and accurate voice leading in four parts.

Ideal for students and amateurs aiming to build a solid, practical understanding of harmony, this edition supports hands‑on practice and steady progress. It’s well suited for self‑study, classroom use, or as a companion to early music theory courses.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330088107
• ISBN 13: 9781330088104
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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