CHAPTER IV 



THE EFFICIENT ACCENT AND REGNANT HARMONY 

 OF MELODY 



38. Regnant Harmony in One Voice and Its 

 Principle of Genesis Explained 



In preceding chapters we have traced the genesis 

 of harmony back to music in one voice or homophony. 

 In the chapters before us we are to trace the evolution 

 of homophonic harmony in a sequence of cause and 

 effect. Through the sudden transference of the har- 

 monic basis of music from the chord to homophony, 

 through the consequent lengthening of the age of 

 harmony from a period of evolution extending over 

 but a few centuries of chords to a period reaching 

 back from the present to the first beginnings of music 

 unknown ages ago, in short, through the discovery of 

 original harmony in one voice and its common reports, 

 the subject of homophony suddenly stands forth in 

 a new light and gains a new theoretic and historic 

 significance and prominence. In the common reports 

 of homophonic harmony, the enumeration of which 

 we have begun and will continue, we have found 

 the long-sought key to common music-feeling and 

 a common basis for testing truth. These reports 

 have guided us in explaining and verifying the 

 genesis of consonance and dissonance in one voice, 

 and will as securely guide us in tracing the genesis of 



