Only small sections of this essay are outright translations. Much matter had to be condensed; whole stretches not sufficiently essential to warrant inclusion in a rather short essay had to be suppressed. In many cases, the methods of approach had to be changed to fit another language and the different modes of thinking it entails. Finally-ten years passing by not without bringing about changes the author has found it necessary in a few minor instances to correct earlier views.
In this essay the author endeavors to present the essentials of a com prehensive, consistent theory of harmony developed from tone structure. The underlying philosophical hypothesis consists in a belief in the psycho-physical reality of tone, whereby the musical fact becomes a symbol of a physical-acoustical fact, and vice versa. It would indeed seem difficult to discover any other basis for a harmonic theory claiming to be universal.
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