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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

ISBN: 0486442721
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Written during the composer's years as professor at the Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. Out-of-print for decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, Tchaikovsky's Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony bears an intrinsic historical interest. Features numerous examples and exercises.
Unabridged republication of Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony, P. Jurgenson, Leipzig, n.d.


Table of Contents for Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony
Introduction
First Part: First Section
I. The Triads of the Major Scale
II. The Connection of the Triads of the Major Scale
III. Connection of Triads, showing no External agreement
IV. Deviations from rules governing the connection of related Triads
V. Harmonic Sequences
VI. The Harmony of the Minor Scale
VII. Open Position
VIII. The Inversions of the Triad
IX. The Inversions of the Diminished and Augmented Triads
Second Section
X. The Dominant Chord
XI. Free Voice-Leading
XII. The chord of the Ninth
XIII. Chords of the minor and diminished Seventh
XIV. The connection of dissonant Harmonies resolving into the tonic Triad
XV. Chords of sequence
XVI. Chords of sequence in minor
XVII. The Harmonization of a given melody
Third Section
XVIII. Direct Modulation
XIX. Transient Modulation
XX. Harmonization of given melodies with modulations
XXI. The enharmonic properties of the chord of the diminished seventh
XXII. The Organ-point
Second Part: First Section
XXIII. Suspensions
XXIV. Anticipation
XXV. Passing-notes
XXVI. Chords of the augmented Fifth
XXVII. Chords of the augmented Sixth
XXVIII. Changing-notes
Second Section
XXIX. Strict Part-writing
XXX. The further development of Voice-leading
XXXI. Harmonic figuration
XXXII. The free Prelude
XXXIII. Deviations from the laws of Harmony
XXXIV. Cadences (closes)

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