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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony. By Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Translated by Emil Krall and James Leibling. Dover Publications, 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501; fax, 516-742-6953; www.doverpublications.com. 2005. 137 pp. Music examples. Paperback, $10.95.
Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony is a theory textbook written in 1872 by the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Translated into German by Paul Juon, the volume first appeared in the West in 1900, via a Leipzig publisher. The current publication is a reprint of an English translation of Tchaikovsky's text by Emil Krall and James Liebling.
Tchaikovsky graduated in the inaugural class of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. His schooling was based on the German model of the Leipzig Conservatory founded by Mendelssohn and Schumann. Upon graduation in 1865, he was recruited...