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26. Tone-Cadence and Tone-Repose 



Every tone in music is in cadence or in repose. 

 Tone-cadence originated in rhythm-cadence. Tone- 

 repose originated in rhythm-repose. Not only are 

 tone-cadence and tone-repose directly derived from 

 rhythm-cadence and rhythm-repose, but this relation 

 of cadence and repose is inseparable in tone as it is in 

 rhythm, it is the basis and explanation of the har- 

 monic form and relation of tone as it is that of rhyth- 

 mic form and relation. These truths assert themselves 

 overwhelmingly in our common feeling and percep- 

 tion of every measure of music; they report them- 

 selves moreover in every measure of music in one 

 voice, in which they first arose. The connection of the 

 two truths, first, that all tones are harmonic, second, 

 that all tones are either in cadence or in repose, 

 straightway leads us to the logical conclusions that 

 there is an original cadence-harmony as well as an 

 original repose-harmony, and that in their genesis these 

 two harmonies are inseparably related, that both 

 cadence-harmony and repose-harmony arose one in 

 relation to the other, in short, that they arose together. 

 This inseparable relation of cadence and repose is the 

 key to the mystery of harmonic form and relation of 

 tone called consonance and dissonance, the subjects 

 of the next chapter, in which the truth of these conclu- 

 sions will be subjected to the explanation and test of 

 common reports of common feeling and perception. 



The major consonance of an isolated tone already 

 identified as the Tonic-harmony in Major is the origi- 

 nal repose-harmony, and its three components I name 



