A New Musical Grammar (Google eBook)

James Alexander Hamilton

R. Cocks & Company, 1849 - 298 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• Division of Music into Theoretical and Practical: 14
• Tone and Semitone Sharp Flat and Natural: 42
• Scales Modes Keys and Signatures: 46
• Major Mode: 47
• Minor Mode: 48
• Table of Signatures i: 54
• Different Degree of Loudness and Softness: 56
• Degrees of Movement: 58
• Maelzels Metronome: 61
• On Graces or Embellishments: 62
• 2 Turn: 66
• 3 Shake: 69
• Portamento or Glide: 74
• Vibration or Close Shake: 75
• Abbreviations and Repetitions: 77
• Expression Legato Staccato e: 82
• Legato Style: 83
• Staccato Style: 84
• Rules on Expression n: 87
• PART II: 92
• Table of: 96
• Common Chords Motion of Parts Progression of Concords: 98
• Inversions of the Common Chord: 115
• 1 Chord of the Sixth: 117
• CS Ditto in Three and Four Parts: 221
• PART III: 246
• Extended Contracted and Interwoven Periods: 258

Bibliographic information

• Title: A New Musical Grammar
• Author: James Alexander Hamilton
• Publisher: R. Cocks & Company, 1849
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Sep 17, 2008
• Length: 298 pages