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In 



Minor 



«) 



E 



THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



h) c) 



iS; 



1 





5 



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A 



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All the above combinations marked by asterisks are 

 compounds either of the two primaries I — V in major 

 and / — V in minor, or of the three primaries I — V — IV 

 in major and / — V — iv in minor. 



The chords in a), 6), c), d), e) and /) are com- 

 pounds of one stable tone plus one, two, three and 

 four unstable tones respectively. The stable tone 

 do \ (C) is the chord-root of each of these compound 

 chords. Why? First, because being the tone to 

 which the other tones are added and being stable it is 



