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Benjamin Cutter, 1902 Harmonic analysis. Part one: This book is designed, primarily, for those who have studied Harmony and would apply it in their every-day musical life, – in other words, in their playing and in their teaching. It is planned – although no premium is hereby placed on superficiality – as much for those people who have made poor work of their harmony, so far as turning out a good-sounding product is concerned, as for those to whom the difficulties were as naught. Furthermore, it is planned for him who, living in some place inaccessible to the best performances, would fain review what he has learned, – if possible, in a manner other than that of laboriously writing exercises, – would broaden his musical horizon and thus increase the gift Heaven has given him, and appease, in a measure, that hunger for chords and for things harmonic which characterizes so strongly this present day.

Benjamin Cutter, 1902 Harmonic analysis. Part two: The second part of this book concerns the appoggiatura, the free tone, the passing tone, the embellishment, the suspension, the anticipation, the organ point and other important subjects.

Benjamin Cutter, 1902 Harmonic analysis. Part three: The third part of this book concerns the altered chords, the supertonic seventh with sharp third, the apparent and real modulations, the modulation through the six-four, the assumption of key, the deceptive resolution, the passing diminished seventh hords, the diminished seventh on the raised fourth step, the secondary seventh chords in general.

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