Playable BooksHarmonielehre
Theory
of harmony
The 1922 German edition, with a new English translation.
Before you start
You’re reading English. , the clefs or the source pages in Settings. Musical examples will become playable as their chapters are transcribed and checked.
Jean-Philippe Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre (1922) develops a theory of harmony, then applies it to composition and accompaniment. Its terminology and rules belong to the musical practice of its time.
Start with a short passage and one example. Choose Simplified English, English, or Caveman for different levels of language, and switch to German to compare the original wording.
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.