Modern harmony, its explanation and application . owes its chief charm to the exploita-tion of some new harmonic rays. A similar proceduretakes place when a composer wishes to revel in the enharmonyof beU-tones, an almost inexhaustible inquiry. The har-monic study serves amply for the demonstration of newharmonic beauties, and much ot the work done finds its wayinto the broader walks of the art. Schumann was the originator of the short poetic piece, thereal tone-poem, compared with which the big canvassesof Liszt and Strauss deserve the title of tone-andp^tefs*. dramas This reveals how ambiguo
Modern harmony, its explanation and application . owes its chief charm to the exploita-tion of some new harmonic rays. A similar proceduretakes place when a composer wishes to revel in the enharmonyof beU-tones, an almost inexhaustible inquiry. The har-monic study serves amply for the demonstration of newharmonic beauties, and much ot the work done finds its wayinto the broader walks of the art. Schumann was the originator of the short poetic piece, thereal tone-poem, compared with which the big canvassesof Liszt and Strauss deserve the title of tone-andp^tefs*. dramas This reveals how ambiguous the termsof musical form are, since all music should havethis quality of poetry in sound as one of its Miniature forms serve either for tone-pictures, as withMacDowell; for little Harmonic Studies, as with R^bikoff;or for tiny Pastels of absolute music, as with ScriabinesPreludes. The following piece is a splendid example ofwhat can be achieved in this form on the absolute lines:— .Lento. J3S4. SCRIABINE,, 190 MODERN HARMONY
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