Harmony

Zusammenfassung The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah. His classic instructional work on harmony, first published in 1889, quickly became a standard text and ran through no fewer than twenty editions, of which this is the sixteenth, of 1903.

Zusammenfassung
The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (18351909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah. His classic instructional work on harmony, first published in 1889, quickly became a standard text and ran through no fewer than twenty editions, of which this is the sixteenth, of 1903.

Inhalt

Preface to the first edition; Preface to the sixteenth edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Key, or tonality; 3. The general laws of part-writing; 4. The diatonic triads of the major key; 5. The diatonic triads of the major key (continued); 6. The inversions of the triads of a major key; 7. The minor key: its diatonic triads and their inversions; 8. The chord of the dominant seventh; 9. Key relationships - modulation to nearly related keys - false relations; 10. Unessential discords (I) - auxiliary notes, passing notes, and anticipation; 11. Unessential discords (II) - suspensions; 12. The chord of the dominant ninth; 13. The chord of the dominant eleventh; 14. The chord of the dominant thirteenth; 15. Chromatic triads - the chromatic scale; 16. Chromatic chords of the seventh; 17. Chromatic chords of the ninth - false notation - enharmonic modulation; 18. Chromatic chords of the eleventh and thirteenth; 19. The chord of the augmented sixth; 20. Pedals; 21. Harmony in fewer and more than four parts; Appendix A. The ecclesiastical modes; Appendix B. The harmonic series; Analytical key to the exercises in the sixteenth and subsequent editions of Harmony: Its Theory and Practice.