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OF CHAPTERS.
Chapter I. On Sound and Hearing page 1.
Chapter II. On Sweetness Latin: Suauitate; refers to the pleasing quality or "agreeableness" of sound and the Principles of Harmony page 26.
Chapter III. On Music in General page 44.
Chapter IV. On Consonances page 56.
Chapter V. On the Succession of Consonances page 76.
Chapter VI. On Series of Consonances page 90.
Chapter VII. On the Accepted Names of Various Intervals page 102.
Chapter VIII. On Musical Genders Latin: Generibus; refers to the Greek system of dividing the tetrachord into Diatonic, Chromatic, and Enharmonic page 113.
Chapter IX. On the Diatonic-Chromatic Gender page 132.
Chapter X. On Other More Complex Musical Genders page 151.
Chapter XI. On Consonances within the Diatonic-Chromatic Gender page 165.
Chapter XII. On Modes and Systems Latin: Systematibus; here referring to organized scales or structural frameworks within the Diatonic-Chromatic Gender page 175.
Chapter XIII. On the Method of Composition in a Given Mode and a Given System page 195.
Chapter XIV. On the Permutation of Modes and Systems. page 252.