Harmony Book For Beginners - online book
Scales, Intervals, Common Chords, Dominant Seventh Chord and Melody Making.
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OREM'S HARMONY BOOK |
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The next note E may He a Root or a Third. Try these:— |
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We incline to the latter. |
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The next note F may be a Root only. It cannot be a Third, since the preceding Chord has been used in the Third Position. It cannot be a Fifth since the Root |
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would be B and the Chord an imperfect one. It must be:— |
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Since we have used F in the Octave Position and we already know that the final Chord is to be in the Octave |
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Position, there is only one thing left for the next to the last note D. It must be in the Fifth Position, thus:— |
Now write out the exercise complete and play it many times, dwelling upon each Chord. This will repay the most painstaking study and repeated analyses. |
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In Class work, wherever possible, it would be well to sing over this exercise and all succeeding ones, in four-part harmony.
Now let the student try a few. |
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