Download or read book The Nature of Harmony (Classic Reprint) written by Hugo Riemann and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nature of HarmonyAt first, the contributions to such a theory based on scientific investigation were few and far between it is only of late that the impulse given to scientific study in general has helped us forward considerably. The interest of practical musicians in the new science is still confined to the few, and has not yet become intense but this is hardly to be wondered at when we consider that it is only within the past twenty years that our scientific knowledge has become sufficient to make it possible to classify discovered facts into a well-rounded system, available for practical use. The more the new way of looking at harmonic relations is seen to be positively useful and practical, the more will interest in laying scientific foundations for the art of music become widespread and lively. In the following pages I shall briefly show what benefit the practical teaching of music has already derived from exact science, and how much it may still hope to' draw from such study in wholly new directions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.