RHYTHM AND TONE 



The next example adds two chromatics : — 

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The harmonies and harmonic relations reported in 

 these melodies assert themselves spontaneously; they 

 are immutable because common to all of us ; you can- 

 not change them unless you add other voices or chords; 

 but even though you add only one more voice, in so 

 doing you add something of your own choice and are 

 no longer dealing with harmony in one voice, which 

 chooses itself. In order to understand the sequel it 

 is imperative that this distinction between that which 

 elects itself and that which you and I elect should be 

 clearly apprehended. The common reports of self- 

 asserting harmonies and harmonic relations are spe- 

 cific to music in one voice, 1 have made observa- 

 tions for more than twenty years and have met no one 

 even of moderate musical endowment, whether child 

 or adult, whether student, musician or layman, who 

 did not readily appreciate a tone's inherent harmony 

 and therefore harmony in one voice. For the first 

 time in our science we find in these common reports 

 of harmony in one voice the explanation of the genesis 

 and development of tonality and of our tone-system. 

 In passing it may be stated that our tonality and our 

 tone-system are inseparably linked in evolution as 

 cause and consequence. 



