Harmony Its Theory and Practice [Paperback]

The 1903 sixteenth, substantially revised edition of the Victorian music scholar Prout's classic text on harmony, first published in 1889.The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (18351909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah. His classic instructional work on harmony, first published in 1889, quickly became a standard text and ran through no fewer than twenty editions, of which this is the sixteenth, of 1903.The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (18351909) is best known for his edition of Handel's Messiah. His classic instructional work on harmony, first published in 1889, quickly became a standard text and ran through no fewer than twenty editions, of which this is the sixteenth, of 1903.The music scholar, composer and editor Ebenezer Prout (18351909) 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.Preface to the first edition; Preface to the sixteenth edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Key, or tonality; 3. The general laws of part-writing; 4. The diatonic triads of the major key; 5. The diatonic triads of the major key (continued); 6. The inversions of the triads of a major key; 7. The minor key: its diatonic triads and their inversions; 8. The chord of the dominant sevenl£1