Excerpt from A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue The discords are, the second, the fourth, the seventh, and the ninth. These discords can only be employed, when prepared by a concord, and resolved by another, unless they are used passingly, ' of which we shall hereafter speak. The imperfect fifth, and the augmented fourth, or tritone, were rejected by the ancients; they should, therefore, only be employed in strict counterpoint, as passing discords. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.