ORIGIN AND NATURE OF MINOR 185 



minor Tonic-harmony based on la is the original 

 minor form. In evolution these forms are repeated 

 on other tones, and all such repetitions for lack of a 

 better name are here called duplicates. Duplicates 

 of the major form on V and IV have already been pre- 

 sented and explained and others will follow. Dupli- 

 cates of the minor form will appear presently. 



Roman numbers are employed for the double pur- 

 pose of indicating the root and the specific form of a 

 harmony; in larger type they indicate major, in 

 smaller type, minor harmonies. I shall strictly adhere 

 to this universal custom save in one particular, namely, 

 the numbers indicating minor harmonies will be 

 printed in italics for reasons which will become obvious 

 as we proceed. 



45. Origin in One Voice of the Minor Form of 

 Dissonance. Original Cadences of the Minor 

 Mode 



In minor the diatonics owing to their reappearance 

 in new and transmuted relations undergo a redistribu- 

 tion and regrouping. The prototype modal relations 

 of cadence and repose in precedent major are directly 

 imitated in minor, and these imitative relations consti- 

 tute the vera causa of the genesis of the minor forms of 

 consonance and dissonance which are the counterparts 

 in minor of the two major prototypes. For the group 

 of tones and relations which we have named the reg- 

 nant major Tonic and its cadences there is a corre- 

 sponding minor group, the regnant minor Tonic and 

 its cadences ; for each specific tone and relation in the 

 precedent major group there is a corresponding tone 



