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Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony

Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony

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  • Date Published: January 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108038607

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  • Alfred Day (1810–49) first published this controversial work in 1845 to substantial negative criticism. He was encouraged in his enterprise by the composer George Alexander Macfarren (1813–87) who remained a staunch supporter of Day's theories. The work begins with an introduction to Day's new approach to the figured bass and then moves on to set out his concept of diatonic (or strict) harmony and chromatic (or free) harmony. Each is discussed in depth, with sections devoted to common chords and their inversions, discords, pedals and modulation together with a large number of musical examples. This second edition of 1885 by Macfarren includes an additional preface discussing the genesis of the work and supporting its basic premise, together with an extensive appendix presenting his additions and differences of view, developed during the intervening period. Despite its complexity, Day's thinking had considerable influence on later writers on harmony.

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    • Date Published: January 2012
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108038607
    • length: 246 pages
    • dimensions: 244 x 170 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.4kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Author's preface
    Editor's preface
    General introduction: of thorough bass
    Part I. Diatonic Harmony, or Harmony in the Strict Style:
    1. Of intervals
    2. Scales and keys
    3. Of the progression of parts in the diatonic or strict style
    4. Of common chords and their inversions
    5. Of sequence
    6. Of discords
    7. The first species of diatonic discords
    8. The second species of discords
    9. The third species of discords
    10. The fourth species of discords
    11. Of pedals in the strict or diatonic style
    12. Of modulation in the strict or diatonic style
    Part II. Chromatic Harmony, or Harmony in the Free Style: Introduction
    13. Of chromatic or fundamental harmony, the intervals used therein, and chromatic scales
    14. Of the progression of parts in chromatic harmony
    15. Of false relation as regards fundamental harmony
    16. Of common chords and their first inversions
    17. Of the second inversions of concords
    18. Of the fundamental sevenths of the dominant, supertonic, and tonic
    19. Of the fundamental minor and major ninths of the dominant, supertonic, and tonic
    20. Of the chord of the fundamental eleventh of the dominant
    21. Of the fundamental chords of the thirteenth of dominant, supertonic, and tonic
    22. Of the chords of the augmented sixth
    23. Of the suspension of fundamental chords
    24. Of mixture of the diatonic and chromatic styles
    25. Of diatonic and chromatic passing notes in the free style, and arpeggios
    26. Of pedals in the free style
    27. Of modulation in the free style
    Appendix
    Postscript.

  • Author

    Alfred Day

    Editor

    G. A. Macfarren

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