Harmony

by Prout, Ebenezer

• ISBN13: 9781108038799
• ISBN10: 1108038794
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah and as the man who put words to the fugue subjects in Bach's Well-tempered Klavier. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music (numbering Henry Wood amongst his pupils) and the reputation he established through his works on music theory gained him the post of Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin. This is the sixteenth (1903) edition, of his 1889 treatise on harmony which ran through over twenty editions, such was its popularity. This edition marks a significant change in Prout's approach to the theory of harmony, moving from a scientific exposition using the harmonic series to a more aesthetic style, which resulted in extensive re-casting of the work and an entirely new key to the exercises. This reprint includes the analytical key to the exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the sixteenth edition

Introduction

Key, or tonality

The general laws of part-writing

The diatonic triads of the major key

The diatonic triads of the major key (continued)

The inversions of the triads of a major key

The minor key: its diatonic triads and their inversions

The chord of the dominant seventh

Key relationships - modulation to nearly related keys - false relations

Unessential discords (I) - auxiliary notes, passing notes, and anticipation

Unessential discords (II) - suspensions

The chord of the dominant ninth

The chord of the dominant eleventh

The chord of the dominant thirteenth

Chromatic triads - the chromatic scale

Chromatic chords of the seventh

Chromatic chords of the ninth - false notation - enharmonic modulation

Chromatic chords of the eleventh and thirteenth

The chord of the augmented sixth

Pedals

Harmony in fewer and more than four parts

The ecclesiastical modes

The harmonic series

Analytical key to the exercises in the sixteenth and subsequent editions of Harmony: Its Theory and Practice

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