The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795–1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation. His most famous and influential work, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, was intended for the students of the University of Berlin, setting out in simple terms the principles of music theory and composition for the untrained. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition, was published in 1852. 00. 9781108063999 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_THE_TRANSLATORS_PREFACE 03.0_pp_vii_viii_Preface 04.0_pp_ix_xii_FROM_THE_PREFACE_TO_THE_FIRST_EDITION 05.0_pp_xiii_xviii_PREFACE_TO_THE_FOURTH_EDITION 06.0_pp_xix_xxiv_Contents 07.0_pp_1_14_INTRODUCTION 08.0_pp_15_16_BOOK_THE_FIRST 08.1_pp_17_44_Composition_in_one_part 08.2_pp_45_65_Composition_in_two_parts 08.3_pp_66_85_The_harmony_of_the_major_scale 08.4_pp_86_108_Greater_freedom_in_the_use_of_chords 08.5_pp_109_133_Inversion_of_the_chords 08.6_pp_134_153_The_harmony_of_the_minor_scale 08.7_pp_154_221_Modulation_into_foreign_keys 08.8_pp_222_237_Interweaving_of_chords 08.9_pp_238_264_Sounds_independent_of_the_harmony_in_composition 08.10_pp_265_276_The_treatment_of_more_or_less_than_four_parts 09.0_pp_277_278_BOOK_THE_SECOND 09.1_pp_279_279_INTRODUCTION 09.2_pp_280_331_The_accompaniment_of_chorales 09.3_pp_332_365_Chorales_composed_in_the_Church_modes 09.4_pp_366_414_Secular_and_national_airs 10.0_pp_415_416_APPENDIX 10.1_pp_417_417_PREFACE 10.2_pp_418_422_Further_development_of_natural_harmony 10.3_pp_423_426_Methodical_explanation_of_the_foundations_of_harmony 10.4_pp_427_428_Covered_sequences_of_fifths_and_octaves 10.5_pp_429_431_The_third_in_the_chord_of_the_dominant_seventh_and_the_dominant_triad 10.6_pp_432_433_On_pianoforte-playing 10.7_pp_434_436_On_the_construction_of_the_normal_minor_scale 10.8_pp_437_439_The_method_of_acquiring_a_knowledge_of_the_chords 10.9_pp_440_446_Further_observations_on_false_relations 10.10_pp_447_451_System_of_the_doctrine_of_chords 10.11_pp_452_453_The_theory_of_concords_and_discords 10.12_pp_454_455_Farther_development_of_the_subject_treated_in_B_and_C 10.13_pp_456_459_The_harmonic_and_melodic_principle 10.14_pp_460_461_The_doctrine_of_leading_sounds 10.15_pp_462_466_Thorough-bass 10.16_pp_467_480_Parallelism_in_the_motivo_of_the_parts 10.17_pp_481_492_Further_observations_on_suspension 10.18_pp_493_496_The_importance_of_melody_supplement_to_M 10.19_pp_497_498_On_the_singable_character_of_the_parts 10.20_pp_499_512_The_chorale_considered_from_a_higher_point_of_view 10.21_pp_513_516_The_harmonization_of_chorales_as_a_trial_of_skill 10.22_pp_517_540_Musical_Appendix 11.0_pp_541_543_General_Index 12.0_pp_544_545_ERRATA Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795-1866), influential music theorist, composer and friend of Mendelssohn, believed music should be part of everyone's education. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition of his influential work on the principles of music theory and composition, was first published in 1852.