Applied Harmony: A Text-Book for Those Who Desire a Better Understanding of Music and an Increase in Power of Expression-Either in Performance of Creative Work, pp. 1-206

This book provides a course of study that is simple, straightforward, and provides musical understanding and mastery of musical material from the outset. This is a course that: teaches the nature of music and thus relieves the burden of rules and their long string of exceptions; will develop imagination with technical development; it will awaken and increase love and appreciation for the best in music; will apply to all branches of music education and have practical value in all areas of music education. The material is introduced progressively and in the order most frequently and naturally used. As each new factor is presented, the student is first made familiar with it by an abundance of excerpts from the works of the best composers — both old and new — from which one sees the various relations of the new material and the practical application of the few necessary rules that are given. The analysis is followed by synthesis through patterns for keyboard work, the use of the new material in the harmonization of melodies, and lastly, original work embodying the new material. The melodies contained in this work have been chosen with a view of developing taste, also to provide every difficulty one is likely to meet in creative work. While original work is required at all stages of study, until a student can write as well or as correctly as the composers from whose works these melodies have been taken, it will be well to use more of the best models.