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Guide to the practical study of harmony / Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; [translated from the German version of P. Juon by Emil Krall and James Liebling].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.
- Standardized Title:
- Rukovodstvo k prakticheskomu izuchenii͡u garmonii. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Harmony.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages : music ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Dover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 2005.
- Summary:
- 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, and yet remains as useful and instructive today as it was over a century ago. A complete course in writing music, this excellent manual features numerous examples and exercises, and functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide for individual musicians.
- Contents:
- The triads of the major scale
- The connection of the triads of the major scale
- Connection of triads, showing no external agreement
- Deviations from rules governing the connection of related triads
- Harmonic sequences
- The harmony of the minor scale
- Open position
- The inversions of the triad
- The inversions of the diminished and augmented triads
- The dominant chord
- Free voice-leading
- The chord of the ninth
- Chords of the minor and diminished seventh
- The connection of dissonant harmonies resolving into the tonic triad
- Chords of sequence
- Chords of sequence in minor
- The harmonization of a given melody
- Direct modulation
- Transient modulation
- Harmonization of given melodies with modulations
- The enharmonic properties of the chord of the diminished seventh
- The organ-point
- Suspensions
- Anticipation
- Passing-notes
- Chords of the augmented fifth
- Chords of the augmented sixth
- Changing notes
- Strict part-writing
- The further development of voice-leading
- Harmonic figuration
- The free prelude
- Deviations from the laws of harmony
- Cadences (closes).
- Notes:
- "Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by P. Jurgenson, Leipzig, in 1900"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 0486442721
- 9780486442723
- OCLC:
- 61050713
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