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Search - Manual Of Harmony - A Practical Guide To Its Study

Manual Of Harmony A Practical Guide To Its Study
Author: Ernst Friedrich Richter

MANUAL OF A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ITS STUDY, PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AT LEIPZIG BY ERNST FRIEDRICH RICHTER EDITED BY ALFRED RICHTER TRANSLATED FROM THE TWENTY-FIFTH GERMAN EDITION BY THEODORE BAKER, PH. D. NEW YORK G. SCHIRMER BOSTON THE BOSTON MUSIC CO. COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY G. SCHIRMER 23017 1949 TRANSLATORS PREFACE In vie... more »w of the surprising history of this Manual of Harmony it is hardly necessary for the Publishers to apologize for offering an entirely new English edition to the musical public of America. The first German edition was issued in 1853 the twenty-fifth German edition, in 1907. Thus, after being subjected for over half a century to the sharp criticism and severe tests of German musical scholarship, to say nothing of the competition of very numerous newer text-books, this remarkable work is still so highly considered at home as to warrant the publication of an edition newly reset from beginning to end. It seems probable that this twenty-fifth German edition, from which our present translation was made, is practically a definitive one. Like all the more recent issues, it was revised and edited by the Authors son, Alfred Richter, whose experienced hand has progressively added much of lasting value to the original treatise. Chief among these additions should be mentioned the chapter on Forms of the Musical Close and, furthermore, the separate volume of Additional Exercises Auf gabenbucK. Despite all gradual accretions, the method of the Manual which might be described as genial empiricism has been left unaltered. In its voluminous array of illustrative examples it still remains unrivalled. What was thought by many instructors to be a paucity of exercises for working out, has been remedied by the above-mentioned volume of Additional Exercises, with its Key. To the exercises contained in the Manual itself, a Key in English has also been published. Con sequently, aids of an unusually helpful sort are offered to both teacher and student. There is also retained, of course, the tendency to occasional digression into subjects rather beyond the ken of the average harmony pupil. And just here the judicious teacher has to assert himself restraining, correcting, suggesting and turn these possible stumbling blocks into actual stepping-stones by so enlisting the students imagina tive faculty as to render even mechanical details interesting and instructive in a higher sense. iii vi AUTHORS PREFACE this latter can never develop into the beauty they aspire to. No talent has ever soared to those heights whereon alone the achievements of art may thrive, without thorough knowledge which, of course, it was easier for him to acquire than for those less gifted. It is not artistry to do things without understanding that is merely the operation of in stinct, which will inevitably discover the lack of thorough training. The clever idea cannot dispense with form and it is this form which we must learn to recognize and wield. And although the form often intuitively accompanies invention, in music it is more needful than in other matters to analyze the idea logically, as it were, to remodel it into new forms, to transform it in most manifold wise. Even he who is musically gifted must acquire a knowledge of these things and skill in their employment and these he can obtain solely by taking pains to learn the laws of music and what others have discovered long before, and to try to imitate and develop it. Earnest, persevering application and, above all, a rational, methodical development to maturity of conception and the creation of living art-works, will assuredly lead students who are musically gifted to the goal of their ambition. ERNST FRIEDR, RICHTER CONTENTS PAG INTRODUCTION. THE INTERVALS i PART I THE FUNDAMENTAL HARMONIES AND THE CHORDS DERIVED FROM THEM CHAPTER I. TRIADS OF THE MAJOR SCALE 9 II. TRIADS OF THE MINOR SCALE 29 III. THE INVERSIONS OF THE TRIADS 36 IV. CHORDS OF THE SEVENTH 43 V...

ISBN-13: 9781406733389
ISBN-10: 1406733385
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 244
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Publisher: Wren Press
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