A System of Harmony Founded on Key Relationship; By Means of which a thorough knowledge of the rules that govern the combinations and successions of sounds may be easily acquired; With or Without a Teacher

First Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/2" x 8." 152 pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact except for light age toning and several pencil annotations on Pages 25-32. Covers have loosening along inner hinges and have moderate rubbing, moderate wear to extremities, and a few marks on front and back. Back inner hinge is cracked. Binding is loosened but still strong and holding. A Good copy. A music textbook that instructs readers about harmonies, relationships between different keys, and beginning music subjects such as clefs, time signatures, notes, rests, sharps, flats, naturals, tempo, dynamics, keys, and chords. Authored by H. A. Clarke, Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. The following are the chapter titles: "Intervals," "Major Scale," "Major Scale and Common Chord," "Positions of Common Chord and Succession of Common Chords with Roots at Bass," "Sequences of Common Chords," "First Inversion of Common Chord," "Second Inversion of Common Chord," "Harmonizing of Melodies with Common Chords and their Inversions," "The Minor Scale," "The Group of Circle of Related Keys," "Chords of Parallel Minor, Lowered Supertonic,--and Chords in the Related Keys not Found in the Given Key," "Chord of Dominant Seventh,--First Progression," "Chord of Dominant Seventh,--Second and Third Progressions and Succession," "Chord of Dominant Ninth," "Chord of Dominant Eleventh," "Chord of Dominant Eleventh Continued,--Additional Remarks on Second Inversions," "Progression of Dissonant Chords by means of Related Sounds," "Chord of Thirteenth," "Supertonic Harmony," "Altered Chords,--Augmented Sixth,--Augmented Fifth,--Passing Seventh," "Suspensions," "Retardation," "Changing Notes or Appoggiaturas," "Passing Notes," "Minor Scale," "Open or Vocal Harmony," "Pedal or Organ Point," "Transition," and "Tempered Scale,--Figured Bass.".…