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in time (rhythm) and a definite relation in space (har- 

 mony) and this double report is the same in all of us. 

 That you feel this double report, although you may not 

 know what it is, is proved by your ability to follow and 

 express a melody. Feeling of melody is feeling of 

 united rhythm and harmony, melody being the com- 

 posite of elements and the original vehicle of music. 



What proof is there that each single tone in a melody 

 is a harmony ? It lies in the fact that each tone arises 

 in the mind together with elementary tones called con- 

 comitants. This complex of a tone and its concomi- 

 tants I have already named the harmonic thread of a 

 tone. The harmonic thread of a tone is the specific 

 harmonic form of a tone. 



What causes the genesis in feeling of the specific 

 harmonic thread or form of a tone ? The proximate 

 cause is the relation of that tone. This form-gener- 

 ating relation inheres in and is reported by melody in 

 each of its tones and, as we have seen, this relation is 

 at once relation in time (rhythm) and relation in space 

 (harmony). Since this relation is asserted in melody 

 it follows that if you feel the melody then do you feel 

 the relation and, by implication, the harmonic thread 

 or form of each tone in the melody. Your feeling of 

 the harmonic thread of each tone in the above folk- 

 song is true. 



What course am I to follow in order to learn to 

 recognize and analyze these harmonic threads and so 

 transmute what I feel into true perception and know- 

 ledge.^ Sing the first phrase of the above folksong 

 over and over again for the purpose of making sure 

 that you retain the feeling of the relation of the first 



