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Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Руководство к практическому изучению гармоний

Text Book (1871).

Catalogue References	TH 255 ; ČW 513
Date	July–August 1871
Language	Russian
Autograph Location	Moscow: Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture
First Publication	Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1872
External Links	Internet Music Score Library Project (complete English translation)

History

Tchaikovsky presumably wrote his manual on commission. The text of the manual was sent to Petr Jurgenson in sections. According to Nikolai Kašhkin's memoirs, the Guide was based on one of Tchaikovsky's lectures at the Moscow Conservatory, written down by one of his students [1] .

From: Polina Vaidman, Liudmila Korabel'nikova, Valentina Rubtsova, Thematic and Bibliographical Catalogue of P. I. Čajkovskij's Works (2006), p. 837
Translated by Brett Langston

Notes:

1. Nikolai Kashkin, Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1954), pp. 54–55 [back]