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THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



melody has continued to cadence and repose on this 

 tone, on that tone, on any tone in the ever widening 

 tone-realm, the difference between to-day and yester- 

 day being a difference in the extent of the tone-realm, 

 a difference between simpler and more complex melo- 

 dies. Like yesterday, so to-day melody reports now a 

 consonance, now a dissonance, no more, no less. 



2. Regnant Minor Dominant, Like its major pro- 

 totype this regnant has three forms: a three-tone 

 form F, a four-tone form F^, a five- tone form Fg. This 

 harmony was first reported in melody by its fifth ti. 

 The concomitants of ti 5 are mi 1 and si 3. The 

 efficient accent on ti or si generates regnant F thus : — 



i 



i 



I 



p^ 



Through its accession of this regnant, melody was 

 enriched first by all the possible steps from one compo- 

 nent to another, next by the bytones and cadences 

 playing upon its components. The former are too 

 obvious and require no illustration. As to the latter 

 we will first consider the bytones of regnant F. Reg- 

 nant F has but two diatonic bytones, namely, la and 

 do, which cadence into the third (si) and fifth (ti) of 

 this regnant. See below and compare with parallel 

 example in major. 



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Major 



