ABSTRACT
This inquiry is by no means easy, for harmony is, in its full modern sense, a very complicated affair. It in volves, in the first place, a great variety of combinations of sounds, differing exceedingly in their character, and the scientific analysis of which is of a very intricate nature. Also, although every substantive harmonic combina tion conveys its own independent idea, yet, in practical music, these ideas have to be linked together in a syste matic and artistic way, so as to form a consistent whole. Hence we have to consider, first, the combinations of sounds individually; and secondly, the progressions from one combination to another. Both these subjects are ordinarily included in the study of harmony.
