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Excerpt from Key to the Additional Exercises to Harmony: Its Theory and PracticeThe student must be careful also nbt to conclude that he has necessarily failed because his melody differs from that given in the key for a large number of the basses given will carry many different melodies above them. As an illustration of this point, the author may mention that he some time since gave one of the basses in the additional exercises (no. 12 to Chap...

Excerpt from Madagascar: Its Mission and Its MartyrsMadagascar. It is my firm Opinion that it is impossible for any one to feel the full force of this impression, unless he has witnessed and studied it himself. The effect of Christian teaching in Madagascar struck me as possessing a most remarkable character.Of this work the present volume contains an outline, with numerous incidents which strikingly indicate its Divine origin. More than this ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to PolynesiaIT is with sincere satisfaction that the author is at length enabled to present to the public the following memoir. Had the long delay which has occurred in its appearance resulted from his own negligence, the pain which he has suffered in consequence would have been a severe, if not a sufficient punishment. But of such a charge he is perfectly guiltless. For hi...

Excerpt from Counterpoint: Strict and FreeHere every rule of harmony is observed, and the passage is perfectly correct. But if the different voices be examined singly, it will be seen that there iss very little melody, and almost no individuality about them. The Soprano and tenor parts each lie within the compass of a minor third, while the alto consists entirely of two notes. Such a passage, however correct as harmony, can scarcely be called ...

Excerpt from Musical FormThis 15 at all events more intelligible than the atrocious series of intervals given in the last section, but it still fails to satisfy either the ear or the mind. Why 15 this? What 15 it that is still wanting?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

Excerpt from Some Notes on Bach's Church-CantatasBefore leaving the chorales there is one point more which ought to be noticed. We often meet several different har monizations of the same chorale, according to the words to which it is set. In several cases five or six versions of the same tune are to be found, and sometimes changes are in troduced even in the melody itself. The well-known Passion chorale O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, which eve...

Excerpt from Some Notes on Bach's Church-CantatasBefore leaving the chorales there is one point more which ought to be noticed. We often meet several different har monizations of the same chorale, according to the words to which it is set. In several cases five or six versions of the same tune are to be found, and sometimes changes are in troduced even in the melody itself. The well-known Passion chorale O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, which eve...

Excerpt from Key to the Exercises in Harmony: Its Theory and PracticeThe student must be careful also not to conclude that he has necessarily failed because his melody differs from that given in the key for a large number of the basses given will carry many different melodies above them. As an illustration of fins point, the author may mention that be some time since gave one of the basses in the additional exercises (no. 12 to Chapter XIII.) ...

Excerpt from Analytical Key to the Exercises in Harmony: Its Theory and PracticeIt may not be super¿uous, in conclusion, to give an urgent warning against using this key as a cram. Under no circumstances should the student consult it until he has worked the exercises and made his own analysis. \to use it while working is like learning to swim with corks. But, after he has completed his own work he will find the use of the key as beneficial as ...

Excerpt from Analytical Key to the Exercises in Harmony: Its Theory and PracticeIt may not be super¿uous, in conclusion, to give an urgent warning against using this key as a cram. Under no circumstances should the student consult it until he has worked the exercises and made his own analysis. \to use it while working is like learning to swim with corks. But, after he has completed his own work he will find the use of the key as beneficial as ...

Excerpt from Key to the Exercises in Harmony: Its Theory and PracticeThe student must be careful also not to conclude that he has necessarily failed because his melody differs from that given in the key for a large number of the basses given will carry many different melodies above them. As an illustration of fins point, the author may mention that be some time since gave one of the basses in the additional exercises (no. 12 to Chapter XIII.) ...

Excerpt from InstrumentationIn the selection of Illustrative passages the author has been guided by the desire to render his work useful, as far as possible, to those who might have in their libraries other treatises on Instrumentation. He has therefore endeavoured to avoid quoting extracts already given by Berlioz and other authors and he has in every instance selected examples from scores in his own library, and not from other instruction-bo...

Excerpt from The Orchestra, Vol. 1: Technique of the InstrumentsHistoire de l'instrumentation, par H. Lavoix, fils. (paris, firmin-didot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 whils...

Excerpt from Analysis of J. S. Bach's Forty-Eight Fugues (Das Wohltemperirte Clavier)HE present handbook, on which my revered father was working enthusiastically up to the very day of his death, is designed to supply a concise analysis of Bach's immortal Forty-eight, for the use of students who are desirous of obtaining some insight into their construction. Much has already been written on the subject, and from many standpoints, but I am nu ac...

Excerpt from Fugal Analysis: A Companion to "Fugue"St. Ann's (no. Which the author had known by heart for thirty years, he found, on analyzing it for this volume, several points of interest which he had never previously noticed. No doubt in many of these fugues much has been overlooked, the author trusts that enough has been said to put the student on the track of further discoveries for himself.In the arrangement of this volume, the author ha...

Excerpt from Harmony: Its Theory and Practice, Additional ExercisesNo satisfactory reason can possibly be given why harmony exercises should necessarily be (as they certainly are in most books) a mere series of dry chords, mostly in notes of uniform length. An attempt has, therefore, been made in the present work to do for harmony what the late Stephen Heller did so admirably for pianoforte studies - to invest them with musical int'erest, thus...

Excerpt from Double Counterpoint and CanonFor this reason inversions at a less distance than the octave are not used but any distance beyond the octave may be taken.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservi...

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