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THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



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The above ties for stable tones, and cadence-marks 

 for unstable tones plainly indicate the resolutions of 

 these compound chords into the major tonic-harmony. 

 To the eye the first three chords appear to be nothing 

 but fourth positions of the diminished seventh-chord 

 based on the chord-root Djj! in which case the chords 

 would be simple. Not so to the ear. In all these 

 chords do (C) is stable and reports itself as harmonic 

 root, that is, as 1. The attempt to think do in these 

 compounds as a small ninth and as unstable, in short, 

 as anything but 1 and stable, results in a voluntary 

 intellectual strain which is wholly unsupported and 

 contradicted by the common reports of feeling and 



