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Obviously this difference in harmonic report is 

 caused by difference in relation. Just as in homo- 

 phony the self-report of a specific tone varies as its 

 relation varies just so in multi-voice music the self- 

 reports of certain specific chords vary as their rela- 

 tions vary. No words can therefore overstate the 

 importance of relation, it is everything. Have we not 

 demonstrated in the genesis and evolution of harmony 

 that harmonic form to relation is as effect to cause ? 

 We have demonstrated that homophonic melody by 

 means of relation has produced the original forms of 

 harmony and the original tones of the tone-system. 

 Let us be explicit on this question of form and relation. 

 The two are inseparable in concrete music. So long 

 as we are contemplating and investigating tones or 

 chords in relation so long only are we contemplating 

 and investigating concrete music. But the moment 

 we leave out relation we leave out music and are then 

 contemplating and investigating only the mere mate- 

 rial of music. Thus abstracted from relation, a spe- 

 cific tone is simply a constituent of the tone-system 

 distinguishable from the other constituents as they 

 from it by relative pitch. A specific chord thus ab- 

 stracted from relation is simply one of the innumer- 

 able chords of music's chord-material distinguishable 

 from other chords as they from it by difference in 

 structure. Briefly, a tone or a chord out of relation 

 is out of music. The physical, physiological and psy- 

 chological views, analyses and theories of music's raw 

 material, that is, of tones and chords out of their dis- 

 tinctively musical relations, have not discovered a 

 single truth about music, have added nothing to our 



