The Theory Of Musical Composition Treated With A View To A Naturally Consecutive Arrangement Of Topics Volume 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Theory of Musical Composition, Vol. 1: Treated With a View to a Naturally Consecutive Arrangement of Topics It is an honor to the taste of our age that now so many of the better musicians and amateurs, even without any direct intention of being them selves composers, still cherish nu ardent desire to become acquainted with the fundamental principles by which tones are connected into melodies and harmonies, for the purpose of enabling themselves to conceive and communicate a rational idea of the good or ill effect of this or that com bination of tones, and of the beauty or deformity Of this or that musical passage or piece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.