Excerpt from The Educational Music Course: Second Reader In each key these relations are first studied through conjunct rhythmical progressions; afterwards through the principal harmonies of the key, suggesting the harmonic basis upon which melody rests. The earlier exercises and songs are purposely quite simple, for the benefit of such pupils as have not had previous training in music. In the First Reader the commonest accidental - Sharp-four - was employed in its Diatonic character, but in this Reader its Chromatic nature is developed as well. The most important flatted degree of the Scale - Flat-seven - is also treated in the same complete and systematic manner. 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.