Excerpt from Harmony Its Theory and Practice Other forms of the minor scale frequently to be met with will be explained later. It will be seen that each of these scales con tains only seven different notes This is because the eighth note, or octave (latin, octavus eighth), is a repetition of the first note at a different pitch and from this note the series te commences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.