"The author calls his method the direct method, in that he makes the pupil begin to compose from the beginning instead of after a long and tedious course of technical rules. Time will tell whether this new method will make better composers than the old way or not, but the new method will certainly make the way of the pupil less thorny. The average student will probably enjoy learning composition according to the method by Carl E. Gardner. There is no reason whatever why this method should not be as useful as the long established methods of Jadassohn, Prout, Richter and others who believe in keeping the pupil's nose to the grindstone for several years before furnishing him with wings." MUSICAL COURIER.
"'Music Composition,' a 'new method of harmony,' by Carl E. Gardner, published by Carl Fischer, New York, is a meritorious text book which seeks to combine, in efficient manner, the teaching of simple forms with the customary guidance in chord connection. The abandoning of the isolated manner in which harmony is generally taught and the stimulus of life it undoubtedly receives by joining to it symmetry, rhythm and melody, is undeniably a progress." CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MUSIC.
PUBLISHED BY
CARL FISCHER
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
FOOTNOTES
[A] All references to scales, intervals and enharmonic changes treat of the tempered scale.
[B] Theoretical keys appear in many compositions during transitions, but they are not obvious (except by analysis) because of the fact that their signatures do not appear.
[C] Capital letters are used to designate major keys and small letters to designate minor keys.