ORIGIN AND NATURE OF MINOR 197 



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The study of Bach more than that of any other 

 one master quickens our perception of melohar- 

 mony and its common self-reports and teaches us 

 to appreciate the essential and fundamental impor- 

 tance of meloharmonic discrimination to an intelligent 

 interpretation and expression not alone of polyphonic 

 music, but of all music. In the study of the rhythms 

 and harmonies first of one melody and next of com- 

 bined melodies we gradually realize that there are 

 principles of expression inherent in music itself and 

 therefore in common feeling of music. What these 

 principles are is considered in a later chapter. That 



