Go Figure! - Roman / Arabic Numerals, Close vs. Open Chords (Harmony I.07)

As you may have guessed, there is an ongoing relationship between numbers – figures – and musical science. In our four-part writing, we have focused on the Primary Triads of the first, fourth, and fifth degrees of the scale: the tonic, subdominant, and dominant.
We marked the bass notes with Roman Numerals, and for now, the bass notes are the roots of the chords. ...

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CREDITS AND LINKS
The individual slides and voice transcript may be reviewed at the Steemit blog link:
https://steemit.com/music/@monadnock/go-figure-roman-and-arabic-numerals-close-and-open-position-chords

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Jadassohn, Dr. Salomon. Manual of Harmony, translated from the German by Paul Torek. Breitkopf and Hartel, 1890. A Public Domain work.

Jadassohn, Dr. Salomon. Elementary Principles of Harmony for School and Self-Instruction. Breitkopf and Hartel, 1895. A Public Domain work.

Public Domain Mark: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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