Harmony Simplified: A Simple and Systematic Exposition of the Principles of Harmony Designed Not Only to Cultivate a Through Knowledge of ... and to Develop the Perceptive Faculties - Couverture souple

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich Von

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ISBN 10 : 1330141490 ISBN 13 : 9781330141496

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Harmony Simplified helps you build practical knowledge of chords, modulations, and musical form.

This practical guide presents step-by-step instruction on how chords are built, how keys change, and how musical form is organized. It emphasizes applying theory through exercises, analysis, and real-world examples, so you can move from theory to confident practice.

The book blends clear explanations with systematic study, guiding you from chord construction to the broader structure of music. You’ll learn how to recognize forms like sonata and primary song form, how cadences shape finality, and how to connect chords smoothly in progression and modulation. The approach focuses on doing, not just understanding, so you gain real proficiency.

• Concrete, hands-on guidance for chords, progressions, and modulations
• Structured exercises that reinforce theory through practice
• Analysis of form, cadences, and the relationships between themes and phrases
• Strategies useful for composers, performers, and music students

Ideal for readers seeking a clear, practical path to mastering harmony and musical form.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Harmony Simplified: A Simple and Systematic Exposition of the Principles of Harmony Designed Not Only to Cultivate a Through Knowledge of Chord-Construction but Also to Practically Apply That Knowledge and to Develop the Perceptive Faculties

This little work offers no apology for its publication. It aims at the following distinct objects: - I. To treat the subjects of Scales, Keys, Signatures, and Intervals so thoroughly that the pupil will be prepared to understand with ease the principles of chord-construction. - II. To present the subject of Chord-Construction in such a manner that the pupil will be obliged to form all chords himself, thus deriving a practical knowledge of the subject. - III. To discard all arbitrary rules. Instead of blindly struggling with a mass of contradictory rules, the pupil is made acquainted with the original principles from which the rules are derived, and his judgment cultivated to apply them with discretion. - IV. The principles of the natural resolution of dissonances are shown, instead of giving the rules for the resolution of chords of the seventh. The pupil will apply these principles not only to chords of the seventh, but to all fundamental dissonances. - V. The chords of the Dominant Seventh, the Diminished Seventh, the Major and Minor Ninth, and the Italian, French and German Sixth, are shown to be but different forms of the same chord, with a perfectly uniform resolution, thus enormously reducing the difficulty of understanding these harmonies, and diminishing the complexity of the whole Harmonic System. - VI. The system of "Attendant" Chords will be found very helpful in understanding those chords which, though outside the key, evidently are closely related to some of its triads.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330141490
• ISBN 13: 9781330141496
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
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