Excerpt from Practical Harmony: A Systematic Course in Fifty-Four Lessons, With Numerous Explanatory Examples, Models, Exercises, and Quotations From the Master-Works Interspersed Throughout the Text; For Use in Colleges, Private Teaching, and for Self-Instruction Not a book for entertainment is here offered the mod ern disciple of art, but a work embodying a course of exercise and study which he must go through, in order to come in possession of a thorough technic, answering to the demands of our art and our age. Unmindful of the transitory success of superficial routine, and aloof from that ostentatious musical elique - nuisance Which every Where makes itself conspicuous, the young musician must subject himself to a strict discipline, one that will enable him to become conscious of his position in the progressive development of art. 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.