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Joseph Smits van Waesberghe, A Textbook of Melody: A Course in Functional Melodic Analysis.

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MISC 2 Joseph Smits van Waesberghe, A Textbook of Melody: A Course in Functional Melodic Analysis.
1st. ed.
1955
107 pp.
MISC 2
978-1-59551-314-4
$36.00
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Contents
PREFACE 7
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1. General Introduction 11
2. Some Details Concerning the Present Method 13
CHAPTER TWO
The Laws of Tonal Affinity
1. The Functional Affinities of Two Given Notes 21
2. The Functional Affinities of Three Given Notes 23
3. The Functional Affinities of Four Given Notes 33
4. The Functional Affinities of Five Given Notes 40
5. The Functional Affinities of Six Given Notes 46
6. The Functional Affinities of Seven Given Notes 53
7. The Functional Affinities of Eight and More Given Notes 54
CHAPTER THREE
Euphony and Its Consequences
1. The Phenomenon of Euphony In Melody 60
2. The Functional Affinities of the Fourth 70
3. From Melody to Harmony and from Harmony to Melody 76
Excursus I. Explanation of the Omission In Early Times of the Third In the Final Chord 83
Excursus II. Consideration of the I IV VI Formula 84
4. The Pentatonic and the Twelve-Note Scales 85
5. Hints on the Analysis and Writing of Melodies in the Major and Minor Scales 89
APPENDIX
On Psalmody and the Laws of Tonal Affinity 97
CONCLUSION 103
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 105
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