In the three-volume treatise on the principles of composition, Die Grundsätze der musikalischen Komposition, Sechter wrote a seminal work that influenced many later theorists. Sechter's ideas are derived from Jean-Philippe Rameau's theories of the fundamental bass, always diatonic even when the surface is highly chromatic; music theory historians strongly associate Sechter with the Viennese conception of fundamental bass theory.p. 60, Cook (2007) Nicholas. Oxford The Schenker project: culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siècle Vienna Oxford University Press Sechter was an advocate of just intonation over well-tempered tuning.
