Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Written during Tchaikovsky’s years as professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. The great Russian composer expounded upon his views of music while he was in the full flower of his creative powers, offering students a chance to learn the discipline’s fundamentals from one of its great masters.
Out of print for decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, Tchaikovsky’s Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony possesses an intrinsic historical interest, yet remains as useful and instructive today as it was a century ago. A complete course in writing music, this excellent manual features numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians.
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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Written during Tchaikovsky’s years as professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. The great Russian composer expounded upon his views of music while he was in the full flower of his creative powers, offering students a chance to learn the discipline’s fundamentals from one of its great masters.
Out of print for decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, Tchaikovsky’s Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony possesses an intrinsic historical interest, yet remains as useful and instructive today as it was a century ago. A complete course in writing music, this excellent manual features numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians.
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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

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Written during Tchaikovsky’s years as professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. The great Russian composer expounded upon his views of music while he was in the full flower of his creative powers, offering students a chance to learn the discipline’s fundamentals from one of its great masters.
Out of print for decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, Tchaikovsky’s Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony possesses an intrinsic historical interest, yet remains as useful and instructive today as it was a century ago. A complete course in writing music, this excellent manual features numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486442723
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 04/01/2005
Series: Dover Books on Music Series
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 209,388
Product dimensions: 5.42(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.17(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
First Part: First Section
  I. The Triads of the Major Scale
  II. The Connection of the Triads of the Major Scale
  III. Connection of Triads, showing no External agreement
  IV. Deviations from rules governing the connection of related Triads
  V. Harmonic Sequences
  VI. The Harmony of the Minor Scale
  VII. Open Position
  VIII. The Inversions of the Triad
  IX. The Inversions of the Diminished and Augmented Triads
Second Section
  X. The Dominant Chord
  XI. Free Voice-Leading
  XII. The chord of the Ninth
  XIII. Chords of the minor and diminished Seventh
  XIV. The connection of dissonant Harmonies resolving into the tonic Triad
  XV. Chords of sequence
  XVI. Chords of sequence in minor
  XVII. The Harmonization of a given melody
Third Section
  XVIII. Direct Modulation
  XIX. Transient Modulation
  XX. Harmonization of given melodies with modulations
  XXI. The enharmonic properties of the chord of the diminished seventh
  XXII. The Organ-point
Second Part: First Section
  XXIII. Suspensions
  XXIV. Anticipation
  XXV. Passing-notes
  XXVI. Chords of the augmented Fifth
  XXVII. Chords of the augmented Sixth
  XXVIII. Changing-notes
Second Section
  XXIX. Strict Part-writing
  XXX. The further development of Voice-leading
  XXXI. Harmonic figuration
  XXXII. The free Prelude
  XXXIII. Deviations from the laws of Harmony
  XXXIV. Cadences (closes)
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