source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:54:09 -0700 Subject: RE: TUNING digest 755 From: PAULE Bill Alves wrote: >Incidentally, it is interesting to note that 13th century motet composers >quite intentionally avoided parallel thirds, though parallel fifths and >fourths are often found. This is not surprising: 16th-19th century polyphony quite intentionally avoided parallel seconds, though parallel thirds and sixths are often found. In the 13th century thirds were not yet consonant, and Pythagorean thirds still sound bad to me today. The general rule is, dissonances must resolve by contrary (or at least oblique) motion to a consonance, since progressing in parallel would lead to another dissonance! Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:55 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA10549; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:55:30 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:55:30 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu