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 offers a practical, step‑by‑step approach to learning harmony. Focused exercises and clear guidance help you move from understanding chords to using them confidently in your own music.

Designed to build a working knowledge of chord construction and its practical applications, the book emphasizes skillful modulating, passing tones, and other techniques through an orderly study plan. It also integrates analysis and form to show how ideas unfold in real music, not just in theory.

• Practical application: turn theory into playable, improvised and composed music.


• Structured study: follow a sequence that gradually expands your chord vocabulary.


• Hands‑on practice: combine keyboard work, writing, and analysis for fuller understanding.


• Form and analysis: learn how themes, motives, and phrases shape musical structure.

Ideal for readers beginning their study of harmony or seeking a clear, usable foundation in theory and ear training.

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
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Copytech (UK) Ltd, Trading as Printondemand-worldwide.com; gpsr@podww.com; ; 9 Culley Court; Orton Southgate; Peterborough; Cambridgeshire; PE2 6WA; Royaume-Uni
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