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NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Traité d’harmonie
Practical Manual of Harmony
The 1910 French edition, with a new English translation.
In review 640 of 640 examples playable
Before you startReading Simplified English
You’re reading Simplified English. , the clefs or the source pages in Settings. Every musical example is playable; play it, slow it down, or follow it on the original scan.
Examples are in review. Check any of them against the original scan beside it.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Practical Manual of Harmony (1886) teaches harmony as a practical craft: harmonizing a melody, choosing chords well, and modulating by way of related keys. This edition follows the 1910 French translation by Félix Dorfmann.
Start with a short passage and one example. Choose Simplified English or English for different levels of language, and switch to French, or to French + English, to compare the original wording. Also in Español or Português (Brasil).
Listen to an example, then follow one voice at a slower tempo. Read the source notes for uncertain details and alternative readings. Where a separate fundamental bass demonstrates the harmony, the example’s notes explain how it is heard.
Open the original page when a detail matters. The scans preserve the printed notation and annotations alongside the reading edition.