by "Alain Naigeon" <anaigeon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 25, 2008 at 01:49 AM
"Anthropus" <Anthropus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de news:
GlWFj.16504$jH5.2280@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I think it arose in the nineteenth century, without any attempt to think
> of it as a 'tritone substitute' for something, but rather as an
extension
> of the idea of the 'German sixth' -- the augmented 6th interval now
> expanding to an octave on the tonic, instead of on the dominant.
Might this be considered as an "exageration" of the Renaissance major
sixth
going to the octave (as I have more or less suggested in a recent remark
I made to Steve) ?
[Let's have a look at Gesualdo's music, he might have done that !! :-) ]
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