Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony

Contents

• Author's preface
• Editor's preface
• General introduction: of thorough bass
• Part I . Diatonic Harmony, or Harmony in the Strict Style:
• 1. Of intervals
• 2. Scales and keys
• 3. Of the progression of parts in the diatonic or strict style
• 4. Of common chords and their inversions
• 5. Of sequence
• 6. Of discords
• 7. The first species of diatonic discords
• 8. The second species of discords
• 9. The third species of discords
• 10. The fourth species of discords
• 11. Of pedals in the strict or diatonic style
• 12. Of modulation in the strict or diatonic style
• Part II. Chromatic Harmony, or Harmony in the Free Style: Introduction
• 13. Of chromatic or fundamental harmony, the intervals used therein, and chromatic scales
• 14. Of the progression of parts in chromatic harmony
• 15. Of false relation as regards fundamental harmony
• 16. Of common chords and their first inversions
• 17. Of the second inversions of concords
• 18. Of the fundamental sevenths of the dominant, supertonic, and tonic
• 19. Of the fundamental minor and major ninths of the dominant, supertonic, and tonic
• 20. Of the chord of the fundamental eleventh of the dominant
• 21. Of the fundamental chords of the thirteenth of dominant, supertonic, and tonic
• 22. Of the chords of the augmented sixth
• 23. Of the suspension of fundamental chords
• 24. Of mixture of the diatonic and chromatic styles
• 25. Of diatonic and chromatic passing notes in the free style, and arpeggios
• 26. Of pedals in the free style
• 27. Of modulation in the free style
• Appendix
• Postscript.