Harmony book for beginners : a text book and writing book for the first year's work, for class, private and self instruction, including scales, intervals, common chords, the dominant seventh chord and melody making / by Preston Ware Orem.
| Author/creator | Orem, Preston Ware |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Theodore Presser Co., ©1916. |
| Description | v, 144 pages : music ; 17 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword -- How to use this book -- Preliminary -- Further preliminary work -- The scale -- The major scale continued -- Intervals -- Intervals continued -- Further consideration of intervals -- Triads -- Common chords -- Common chords in succession -- Harmonizing a melody -- Harmonizing a melody continued -- The first inversion -- Harmonizing melodies resumed -- Degree names: the second inversion -- Second inversion continued -- Cadences -- Harmonizing melodies resumed -- The minor scale -- Harmony in the minor -- Harmony in the minor continued -- The figured bass -- The figured bass continued -- Melodies and figures -- Freer use of chords and inversions -- Additional uses of the second inversion -- The dominant seventh chord -- Inversions of the dominant seventh chord -- Further uses of the dominant seventh chord: sequences -- On melody making. |
| LCCN | 16023077 |