HARMONY BOOK FOR BEGINNERS

A First Year's Text Book for Class or Self Instruction, including
Scales, Intervals, Chords, Dominant Seventh and Melody Making.

By PRESTON WARE OREM c1910

About This Book
The Art of Music is in process of continual development and its practical side must be approached from various angles. It is not the function of a Beginner's Book to speculate or to advance new theories, but rather to deal with things as they are. This work aims to present in a plain and practical manner the groundwork of Harmony, giving sufficient material for the work of the First Year, and affording a thorough preparation for more advanced study according to any of the standard methods. Acting upon the principle of doing one thing at a time and doing it thoroughly, this work proceeds by easy stages, devoting special attention to Scales and Intervals, and to the handling of Common Chords. The subject matter is presented in such a manner as to develop the reasoning faculty from the very outset.

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HARMONY BOOK FOR BEGINNERS - online book, Content Index. Note: deduct 100 from the numbers shown to get the original page number from the book.

Title Page Foreword How to use this book. Contents Preliminary - 0107 Further Preliminary Work - 0108 The Scale - 0109 Page - 0110 Page - 0111 The Major Scale Continued - 0112 Page - 0113 Page - 0114 Page - 0115 Intervals - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0118 Intervals Continued - 0119 Page - 0120 Page - 0121 Further Consideration of Intervals - 0122 Page - 0123 Page - 0124 Page - 0125 Page - 0126 Triads - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 Page - 0130 Common Chords - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 Common Chords in Succession - 0135 Page - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 Harmonizing a Melody - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 Page - 0142 Page - 0143 Harmonizing a Melody Continued - 0144 Page - 0145 Page - 0146 The First Inversion - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 Page - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 Harmonizing Melodies Resumed - 0153 Page - 0154 Degree Names the Second Inversion - 0155 Page - 0156 Page - 0157 Second Inversion Continued - 0158 Page - 0159 Page - 0160 Page - 0161 Page - 0162 Cadences - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 Page - 0166 Page - 0167 Harmonizing Melodies Resumed - 0168 Page - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 The Minor Scale - 0172 Page - 0173 Page - 0174

Page - 0175 Page - 0176 Page - 0177 Harmony in the Minor - 0178 Page - 0179 Page - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 Page - 0183 Page - 0184 Page - 0185 Page - 0186 Page - 0187 Page - 0188 Harmony in the Minor Continued - 0189 Page - 0190 Page - 0191 Page - 0192 Page - 0193 The Figured Bass - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 The Figured Bass Continued - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 Melodies and Figures - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 Freer Use of Chords and Inversions - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 Page - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 Additional Uses of the Second Inversion - 0213 Page - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 Page - 0218 Page - 0219 Page - 0220 The Dominant Seventh Chord - 0221 Page - 0222 Page - 0223 Page - 0224 Page - 0225 Page - 0226 Inversions of the Dominant Seventh Chord - 0227 Page - 0228 Page - 0229 Page - 0230 Page - 0231 Page - 0232 Page - 0233 Further Uses of the Dominant Seventh Chord-Sequences - 0234 Page - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Page - 0239 On Melody Making - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244