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Table of contents
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Chapter I. The Triads of the Major Scale — 11
Chapter II. The Connection of the Triads of the Major Scale — 12
Chapter III. Connection of Triads, showing no External agreement — 15
Chapter IV. Deviations from rules governing the connection of related Triads — 17
Chapter V. Harmonic Sequences — 20
Chapter VI. The Harmony of the Minor Scale — 21
Chapter VII. Open Position — 25
Chapter VIII. The Inversions of the Triad — 26
Chapter IX. The Inversions of the Diminished and Augmented Triads — 30
First part · Second section
Chapter X. The Dominant Chord — 33
Chapter XI. Free Voice-Leading — 38
Chapter XII. The chord of the Ninth — 40
Chapter XIII. Chords of the minor and diminished Seventh — 41
Chapter XIV. The connection of dissonant Harmonies resolving into the tonic Triad — 44
Chapter XV. Chords of sequence — 47
Chapter XVI. Chords of sequence in minor — 52
Chapter XVII. The Harmonization of a given melody — 54
First part · Third section
Chapter XVIII. Direct Modulation — 63
Chapter XIX. Transient Modulation — 58
Chapter XX. Harmonization of given melodies with modulations — 72
Chapter XXI. The enharmonic properties of the chord of the diminished seventh — 75
Chapter XXII. The Organ-point — 77
Second part · First section
Chapter XXIII. Suspensions — 82
Chapter XXIV. Anticipation — 91
Chapter XXV. Passing-notes — 94
Chapter XXVI. Chords of the augmented Fifth — 100
Chapter XXVII. Chords of the augmented Sixth — 106
Chapter XXVIII. Changing-notes — 111
Second part · Second section
Chapter XXIX. Strict Part-writing — 116
Chapter XXX. The further development of Voice-leading — 126
Chapter XXXI. Harmonic figuration — 130
Chapter XXXII. The free Prelude — 134
Chapter XXXIII. Deviations from the laws of Harmony — 135
Chapter XXXIV. Cadences (closes) — 136