"These exercises are intended to supply a want which I have continually felt during my practice as a teacher. The only work at all covering the same ground is one by Hiller, the exercises in which are too difficult for average students. The plan of the present work is simple. First, I have given a collection of Chorales to be harmonized [...] Next comes a large assortment of Tunes, principally Folk-songs of many nations, to be harmonised in various manners. [...] His next step will be one in actual composition. A number of melodic phrases or half sentences are given, and he must invent a suitable continuation [...] Finally, I have given some Basses, figured and unfigured, on which to build harmony and melody. [...] Naturally the earlier exercises will be the most useful, and I have therefore given a proportionately larger number of these."--Preface.