CHORDS IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR ORIGIN 281 



These melodies and their harmonic index plainly set 

 the student's task before him, and give him the key to 

 the whole musical rationale of the situation. Melody 

 being the one simple and real fact in the beginner's 

 inner consciousness and experience of music, it follows 

 that the given melody is the one thing that his musical 

 faculties can seize upon and be stirred by, the one 

 thing that lies within his intellectual grasp and appre- 

 ciation, the one thing he appreciates and remembers 

 as a whole and in relation to which it is easy for him 

 to add something else since it explains the musical 

 what, how and why of the addition. The beginner 

 feels and can follow the inherent relations connecting 

 the tones of the given melody, he readily learns to hear 

 the concomitant voices reported by the melody, since 

 those voices but complete the sense of the melody. 

 Thus as he adds voice upon voice the student duly 

 learns to appreciate the concurrences and correla- 

 tions of all the four voices, in fine, he knows what 

 he is about and attains the educational purpose of the 

 exercises. Below is the desired result of his perform- 

 ance, valuable if worked out from a given melody, 

 valueless if worked out from a given bass. 



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