The British composer John Stainer (1840 1901) was organist at St
Paul's Cathedral from 1872 to 1888, and in 1889 became Professor of
Music at Oxford. In this third edition of A Theory of Harmony he
ceased to call it a theory founded on the tempered scale, as he had
previously. He wrote in the Preface that he now believed the theory
to be perfectly applicable to the system of just intonation. A
further reason, in his view, was that the attitude of scientific
men toward modern chromatic music had recently improved, as they
could see that their system would never be adopted as long as it
threatened the existence of a single masterpiece of musical
literature. However, the system would be accepted when it rendered
such works capable of more perfect performance. This influential
Victorian textbook is now reissued for the benefit of those
interested in nineteenth-century composition and analysis.
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