Ernst levy a theory of harmony pdf download

A naturalized U. After his retirement, Levy returned to Switzerland where he continued to compose until his death in He was an enormously productive composer, with hundreds of works to his credit including symphonies, string quartets, songs in English, French, and German, and music for solo instruments and small ensembles.

He thought of himself as a successor to Reimann, immediately, and Rameau, more remotely. In this third edition of A Theory of Harmony he ceased to call it a theory founded on the tempered scale, as he had previously. He wrote in the Preface that he now believed the theory to be perfectly applicable to the system of just intonation.

A further reason, in his view, was that the attitude of scientific men toward modern chromatic music had recently improved, as they could see that their system would never be adopted as long as it threatened the existence of a single masterpiece of musical literature. However, the system would be accepted when it rendered such works capable of more perfect performance.

This influential Victorian textbook is now reissued for the benefit of those interested in nineteenth-century composition and analysis. This harmony text ranges over such diverse subjects as nature, artistic creativeness, culture, and aesthetic theories of the past.

The author writes of his fascination with sound; on the idea that musical order may be manifested in many inconcievable ways; and questions the need of order in music. Ninety music examples are included. A well-used general text, this book covers material from figured bass to contemporary practices and ideas in a two-year course. There is a particularly strong chapter on ear training. Search for: Close? A Theory of Harmony is a highly original explanation of the harmonic language of the last few centuries, showing the way toward an understanding of diverse styles of music.

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