Harmoniesystem in dualer Entwickelung:

Studien zur Theorie der Musik (1866)^*

Brief summary:

• Oettingen's bridge-building blueprints called for modifying Helmholtz's work with Hauptmannian supports

• Oppositional structures inhered in "strict scientific principles" and were governed by logical relations that could no more be questioned than laws of gravity

• Take Hauptmann's oppositional structure -- having/being -- to generate his theory, i.e. tonic/phonic

• Major triad as "tonically consonant; phonically dissonant" and minor triad as "tonically dissonant; phonically consonant"

Digest of Daniel Harrison's Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents.

^* An enlarged version was published in 1913 February under the title, Das duale Harmoniesystem.

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