Textbook survey continued

I began a survey of the dominant ninth chord in treatises and textbooks in 2019 with a post on a figured-bass manual by Simon Sechter (link) and another discussing the repertoire list for a score anthology (link). The work got underway seriously a couple months later, however, with a series of posts in August and September covering Catel through Schoenberg (link to the first post). After a considerable hiatus and following a library visit, I began again in May 2023 and discussed 12 books published in the United States from 1944 to 2008 but focused on the 1960s to 1980s (link to the first post). 

Here I continue with six more books; these were picked up online through the Internet Archive or Google Books.

Howard E. Parkhurst, A Complete System of Harmony (New York: Carl Fischer, 2d ed. 1908)

Friedrich Johann Lehmann, Harmonic Analysis (Oberlin, OH: A. G. Coming, 1910) 

Charles L. Seeger, jr., and Edward G. Stricklen, Harmonic Structure and Elementary Composition (Berkeley, CA: [self-published], 1916)

Arthur Olaf Andersen, The First Forty Lessons in Harmony (Boston: C. C. Birchard, 1923)

Harold B. Maryott, The Essentials of Harmony (Chicago: Gamble Hinged Music, 1923)

Gustave Strube, The Theory and Use of Chords: A Text-Book of Harmony (Boston: Ditson, 1928)

As you can see, these revert to the first half of the 20th century. I am now planning another library visit that will focus on post-1990, and I hope to report on those documents in due time. Admittedly, bringing the work into the present will be more difficult: changes in pedagogical priorities and the now-abundant online resources will pose a challenge, but I hope to draw the thread of dominant-ninth pedagogy forward nevertheless.

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