Harmony Modernized

Author : Max Loewengard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330153826
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Harmony Modernized written by Max Loewengard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harmony Modernized: A Course Equally Adapted for Self-Instruction or for a Techer's Manual The author of this manual is an instructor of ripe and varied experience, having taught classes in theory and composition at the conservatory of Wiesbaden (one year), the Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin(1891-7), the Stern Conservatory(1897-1904, succeeding the celebrated pedagogue Ludwig Bussler), and since then at the Hamburg Conservatory. He has also had several years practical work as a conductor of orchestra; is a composer of good repute, and a musical critic of note. Like other thoughtful teachers of harmony, the deficiencies of the text-books in use were brought home to him daily. But their insufficiencies by no means blinded him to the underlying merits in their general scheme; a scheme so familiar to hundreds of thousands of teachers and students, that the substitution of a new system would mean a revolution which probably but few could be induced to join. And a new system was not required; the real difficulty lay in a few ancient restrictions quite inapplicable to present conditions, and in a multiplication of rules to fit special cases, with an attendant multiplication of exceptions. How to fit the rides to meet the requirements of modern harmony; - that was the problem. That the author has solved this problem, is a fact increasingly appreciated among the circles most vitally interested in the matter. The keynote of the work is Simplification not simplification by omission, but simplification by inclusion. Under the three rubrics "Triads," "Seventh-Chords," and "Ornamental Changes in the Connection of Chords," the theory of chordal interconnection is developed in astonishingly simple and complete fashion. The treatment of the cadence in its position as a key to the art of composition, is perhaps the most original and important thing in the book; but also the sections on the minor mode, seventh-chords, the harmonizing of melodies, modulation, the fundamental principle of the altered chords, and the noteworthy absence of the usual string of "exceptions," deserve especial mention. Taking all these points into careful consideration, the title "Harmony Modernized" will be found to be fully justified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.