Harmony book for beginners; a text book and writing book for the first year's work, for class, private and self instruction, including scales, intervals, common chords, the dominant seventh chord and melody making . Hereafter we will use the Figures * for the Second Inversion. For instance: -g? If we count up a Fourth from the FIGURED BASS CONTINUED 99 given Bass Note, we will obtain the Root of the Chord, the Bass Note, of course, beingthe Fifth of the Chord. Counting up a Sixth in the same manner we obtain the Thirdof the Chord. The Second Inversion is commonly spoken of as the Six-Four Chor
Harmony book for beginners; a text book and writing book for the first year's work, for class, private and self instruction, including scales, intervals, common chords, the dominant seventh chord and melody making . Hereafter we will use the Figures * for the Second Inversion. For instance: -g? If we count up a Fourth from the FIGURED BASS CONTINUED 99 given Bass Note, we will obtain the Root of the Chord, the Bass Note, of course, beingthe Fifth of the Chord. Counting up a Sixth in the same manner we obtain the Thirdof the Chord. The Second Inversion is commonly spoken of as the Six-Four Chord or Chord of theSix-Four. Below is a Bass, figured in accordance with the preceding explanations. Thestudent who has mastered the contents of this book, up to this point, should find itvery easy to harmonize. Some may be able to play it at sight. All should try. Here is the Bass: 33E3 ^—t-x*—-r: p=t m 3==m= And here is the Harmony: $ OQ -J *- -G&- m T~&- 1 I ? 9 =± 1 ?JOBT- Now let the student try a few. See how quickly he can work them all principles. 100 OREMS HARMONY BOOK Write the proper Roman Numeral under each chord, indicating its Root. m 3 6 &m=ft =1=4 m 6 \ -&-. rJ at- { pfe » <S &- £ -&—&- When a $, t) or *, as the case may he, with no Figure by its side, stands over aBass Note, it shows that the same sign should be written before the Third over said Bass Note. For instance: It m means that G, the Third over E, must be written G$. The Chord will be completed thus:
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