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Harmony
Its Theory and Practice

The 1903 sixteenth, substantially revised edition of the Victorian music scholar Prout's classic text on harmony, first published in 1889.

Ebenezer Prout (Author)

9781108038799, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 November 2011

514 pages, 597 music examples
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg

The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah and as the man who put words to the fugue subjects in Bach's Well-tempered Klavier. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music (numbering Henry Wood amongst his pupils) and the reputation he established through his works on music theory gained him the post of Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin. This is the sixteenth (1903) edition, of his 1889 treatise on harmony which ran through over twenty editions, such was its popularity. This edition marks a significant change in Prout's approach to the theory of harmony, moving from a scientific exposition using the harmonic series to a more aesthetic style, which resulted in extensive re-casting of the work and an entirely new key to the exercises. This reprint includes the analytical key to the exercises.

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.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]

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