Gottfried Weber Theory of Musical Composition

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is an honor to the taste of our age that now so many of the better musicians and amateurs, even without any direct intention of being them selves composers, still cherish nu ardent desire to become acquainted with the fundamental principles by which tones are connected into melodies and harmonies, for the purpose of enabling themselves to conceive and communicate a rational idea of the good or ill effect of this or that com bination of tones, and of the beauty or deformity Of this or that musical passage or piece.