Harmony its theory and practice Ebenezer Prout 9781171752905 Books
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Harmony its theory and practice Ebenezer Prout 9781171752905 Books
Harmony is as complicated as any other language, and it is a language, an ancient one. Beginners should introduce themselves to the subject through a large print, amply illustrated, "children's" book.Prout's book was written in 1889, which does not make it ancient, but which limits its applicability to contemporary music. I would have enjoyed reading his comments about Charles Ives. Prout writes in a personable manner, and presents the material in as user friendly style as this subject permits. I get the sense of a lecturer in his writing.
The content of the book is complete, but there is no index. The detailed table of contents helps, but an index would have been much easier. Harmony books are organized in a variety of ways. There is no single thread to the subject that can be neatly followed, so each author must choose which threads to follow and when. The subject is a lot like the internet. Prout's choices are logical, and the table of contents does give the reader clues to related areas.
The musical examples are well chosen, both for ease of introducing whatever point Prout is making, and for referencing the classics.
I deducted one star because the quality of print is poor. The flow of ink is uneven leaving some some characters disconcertingly heavy, and failing to print parts of others. This was particularly frustrating with figured bass. Of course, I probably learned more by having to consult other texts to determine the characters, than if they had been well printed in the first place.
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Harmony its theory and practice Ebenezer Prout 9781171752905 Books Reviews
I just picked up a "1903" Copy of Harmony Its Theory and Practice by Ebenezer Prout. It is so easy to read, and each point written about Harmony is easy to understand in comparison to other books I have read on the matter, such as Tonal Harmony by Stefan Kostka, which was written in the last 10 years. I think the authors of today have become to abstract in the way they write, which leaves the student questioning, if they undersand the material at all. I know music teachers are suppose to pick up where the book leaves off, but that dosen't always happen. It's refreshing to find a book that explains in detail what you need to know, without having a thrid party to fill in the blanks. I look forward working through Ebenezer Prout's book more throughly. Also as an encouragement to other Music Students. Ebenzer writes this in the preface of his book. "The Learner's Motto must be. . ."One thing at a time, and done throughly." ". This is a reminder to me to keep learning, and not give up until I feel I have learned all that I need to learn about Harmony. The next mountian to climb will be counterpoint. In the mean time I am going to sit back and enjoy "Harmony it's theory and Practice by Ebennezer Prout. 1902 Sixteenth Version of the book. Believe it or not I got this book for only Ten dollars. It's in great condiditon and is going to keep me busy for awhile.
This book is quite a surprise for a hundred year epic, which it now certainly is. Ebenezer Prout's world was of course, Wagner, Chopin, Beethoven, Shubert, Bach, and Dvorák, but with his depth of understanding, oddly enough, the book has a very contemporary feel. You can almost imagine that with his organization of chapters into successively higher degrees of harmonic structure, you could almost imagine this as a source book for jazz improvisation.
The great value of the book is that many segments from real compositions are included. Ebenezer doesn't stop at one example of each chord - he gives many quite varied examples from quite disparate pieces, and provided that one can play these pieces oneself on the piano, this is a very good way to get an idea of what the theoretical material is all about.
The fascinating thing about Prout is his highly systematic and organizational ability. Starting from Helmholtz's idea of harmonic series, he describes the major & minor scales, and builds up ideas on higher and larger chords of greater degree. He explains the augmented sixth chords as chords on two generators, and treats progressions including them, and their resolution analytically this way, with great consistency and effect.
[He is unusual in that he discusses chords of the 11th, modern writers often dismissing these as artifacts, suspensions, etc.]
You can well imagine how following chapters would have been written if he had lived to hear Debussy... The later chapters probably anticipate Gustav Holsts's and Stravinsky's bitonality, though the book may well have been different altogether given such revolutions at the beginning of this century.
I really would reccommend the book. It may not be easy in view of his rather different voice (from 100 years ago this is hardly surprising), but his enthusiasm and love for his craft make it a real joy to read.
Note this review is about the format.
Even for $0.99 you may want to think twice before buying it - the text is completely unreadable. Here are just a few examples
"if the minor third is the lower, ^y-^^---- the chord is called a minor chord."
"Shall we take BJ? or Bfcj? We select B? "
"But we saw in the last chapter that Dfcj was a secondary harmonic ..."
......
I feel like reading a code book instead.
is not the that I know years ago, this case and some other issues I had in the past months let me feel today's don't give a *&&^ about the quality of whatever they provide.
Great as expected!
Unreadable.
Good
Harmony is as complicated as any other language, and it is a language, an ancient one. Beginners should introduce themselves to the subject through a large print, amply illustrated, "children's" book.
Prout's book was written in 1889, which does not make it ancient, but which limits its applicability to contemporary music. I would have enjoyed reading his comments about Charles Ives. Prout writes in a personable manner, and presents the material in as user friendly style as this subject permits. I get the sense of a lecturer in his writing.
The content of the book is complete, but there is no index. The detailed table of contents helps, but an index would have been much easier. Harmony books are organized in a variety of ways. There is no single thread to the subject that can be neatly followed, so each author must choose which threads to follow and when. The subject is a lot like the internet. Prout's choices are logical, and the table of contents does give the reader clues to related areas.
The musical examples are well chosen, both for ease of introducing whatever point Prout is making, and for referencing the classics.
I deducted one star because the quality of print is poor. The flow of ink is uneven leaving some some characters disconcertingly heavy, and failing to print parts of others. This was particularly frustrating with figured bass. Of course, I probably learned more by having to consult other texts to determine the characters, than if they had been well printed in the first place.
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