Harmony Modernized e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Science of Harmony is the grammar of music. For any one who occupies himself with music, a knowledge of the science of har mony is just as indispensable, as a knowledge of grammar is to one who wishes to acquire mo're than a superficial acquaintance with a language. The circumstance, that the harmony-exercises are for very simple pedagogical reasons not merely analytic, but, for the most part, necessarily synthetic, easily leads the pupil to regard them as prepara tory work in composition; this they are, in point of fact, in no other sense than (let us say) orthographical and grammatical exercises are a preparation for writing poetry; no less elementary, no less pensable.