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THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



of truth. I repeat, melody, perfectly free because 

 perfectly self-governed, raay repose or cadence here, 

 there, anywhere in the tone-realm. Melody exercised 

 this freedom yesterday in a narrow, exercises it to-day 

 in a wide realm of tones. 



One more form of the regnant minor dominant 

 remains to be presented. This form is a minor con- 

 sonance generated by melody through the diatonic 

 sol. We have met this consonance, due to the report 

 of sol as small third, in the paragraph on the minor 

 tonic, where sol appeared as a bytone. In the follow- 

 ing melody sol a is a regnant tone and announces the 

 regnant minor dominant in the form of a minor 

 consonance. 



m 



5 1 



~N 



1 8 



^ 



i^ 



3 6 



8 5 



^^ 



-^ 



it=i=!t=iiz^ 



IV 



Here sol a reports regnant v in the second, third 

 and fourth measures and appears as a bytone in the 

 fifth and last measures. This melody reports three 

 diatonic harmonies, namely, 7, V and iv ; all of its tones 

 and their concomitant harmonics are diatonics, all 

 its harmonic percepts are minor, in short, this 

 example presents a jpure diatonic minor melody. 

 This proof by the above harmonic self-reports that 

 a pure minor melody is not only conceivable and 

 self-assertive in one voice, but is an absolute reality. 



