Excerpt from How Music Developed: A Critical Ana Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern MusicN the growth of modern music the second step was the introduction of harmony. The Simultaneous sounding of notes of dif forent pitch in combinations called chords is so essential a part of the music of to-day that even the uneducated mind has difficulty in conceiving a tune as wholly dissociated from the coloring in¿uences of its harmony. Every schoolboy is accustomed to hearing melodies with what he calls a bass (an accompani ment founded on chords), and in the common est music-hall son 3 the familiar harmonies are the results ofg centuries of experiment among the ecclesiastical fathers of modern music. It is difficult for us to understand that there was a time when harmony was un known to musicians, but such is the case.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 whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.