On Mar 24, 7:49 pm, "Alain Naigeon" <anaig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Anthropus" <Anthro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a =E9crit dans le message de news:
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> > I think it arose in the nineteenth century, without any attempt to
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> > of it as a 'tritone substitute' for something, but rather as an
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> > of the idea of the 'German sixth' -- the augmented 6th interval now
> > expanding to an octave on the tonic, instead of on the dominant.
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> Might this be considered as an "exageration" of the Renaissance major
sixt=
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> 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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> Alain Naigeon - anaig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yea, go and blame it on Gesualdo! I understand he was capable of
almost anything ;-) and his music had a lot of strange things as well!
lol
Did my explanation of the V7/b5 make any sense to you?
LJS
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