Description: The first important step in the study of harmony is that of clarifying the purpose of such study. Much confusion exists today as to why we study musical theory and what we should expect to learn from it. In the present writer's teaching experience this confusion of outlook furnishes the commonest and most serious obstacle to progress in all branches of musical theory. here are those who consider that studies in harmony, counter-point, and fugue are the exclusive province of the intended com-poser. But if we reflect that theory must follow practice, rarely preceding it except by chance, we must realize that musical theory is not a set of directions for composing music. It is rather the collected and systematized deductions gathered by observing the practice of composers over a long time, and it attempts to set forth what is or has been their common practice. It tells not how music will be written in the future, but how music has been written in the past.
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Binding: Paperback
Place of Publication: Madison Wisconsin
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Walter Piston
Region: North America
Publisher: United States Armed Forces Institute
Topic: Music
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Performing Arts
Original/Facsimile: Original
