. The eclectic piano-forte school : arranged from the works of the best European composers, namely Cramer, Clementi, Herz, Hunten, Beyer, Burgmuller, Czerny, Bertini, Moscheles, Diabelli, Kalkbrenner, A. Schmitt, Wallace, Rosellen, &c., with selections from popular American authors : the whole forming an elementary and progressive course of instructions with scales, exercises, and pieces carefully fingered according to the latest and most approved method . 3*£—535^=i5^ v#-i *-♦«- X _„■#■*■ =&gLw£z ii>* ADDENDA. ELEMENTS OF THOROUGH-BASE. CHAPTER I. Harmony is to music, what grammar is


. The eclectic piano-forte school : arranged from the works of the best European composers, namely Cramer, Clementi, Herz, Hunten, Beyer, Burgmuller, Czerny, Bertini, Moscheles, Diabelli, Kalkbrenner, A. Schmitt, Wallace, Rosellen, &c., with selections from popular American authors : the whole forming an elementary and progressive course of instructions with scales, exercises, and pieces carefully fingered according to the latest and most approved method . 3*£—535^=i5^ v#-i *-♦«- X _„■#■*■ =&gLw£z ii>* ADDENDA. ELEMENTS OF THOROUGH-BASE. CHAPTER I. Harmony is to music, what grammar is to language; harmony, orthorough-base, therefore, may be styled the grammar of music. The study of Harmony presupposes the student to be familiar withthe rudiments of music; the formation of the various scales, hothmajor and minor; the meaning, and the application of the variouscharacters used in music; and, in a word, every thing necessary to aproper understanding of what constitutes the difference betweenMelody and Harmony. Melody consists of a succession of single tones, regulated accordingto the rules relating to time, accent, &c. When, for example, afemale sings alone, without any accompaniment, her song is pure,simple melody. If a person plays on the Flute (or any other instru-ment capable of producing hut one note at a time) it is simply Melody,one-voiced, or Monophonie. Harmony consists of a simultaneous union or combination of tones;it may consist of two, three, four, and more tones. When


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