. 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 . m *rt &S2 ?=£ jSL & 7. &&- :g: % 8 t=t -&—*? 2 is in the relative major. 3 and 4 in minor. Part of 5 and 6 in major, the remainder in minor. 36 HARMONY. It was customary at one time to end all compositions in the minorkey with a major tonic. This major third was called the u Tierce dePicardie. It is still occasionally used. In harmonizing the exercises that follow, find opportunities fo


. 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 . m *rt &S2 ?=£ jSL & 7. &&- :g: % 8 t=t -&—*? 2 is in the relative major. 3 and 4 in minor. Part of 5 and 6 in major, the remainder in minor. 36 HARMONY. It was customary at one time to end all compositions in the minorkey with a major tonic. This major third was called the u Tierce dePicardie. It is still occasionally used. In harmonizing the exercises that follow, find opportunities for theuse of the relative major chords. The natural seventh of the minorscale must (at present) be either root or fifth of a chord in the relativemajor. It is necessary now to speak of the Diminished Chord, but morewill be said about it later. Diminished Chords may be used freely, with the proviso that theyare used in the first inversion. In the Major scale there is but one ; viz., on the Leading note. Inthe Minor scale in addition to one on the Leading- note there is one on the second (Supertonic) of the scale,very important in the minor scale. The Bass note of this chord is the


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