source file: m1373.txt Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:32:18 -0500 Subject: Reply to Daniel Wolf From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}I doubt, however, that >}special preference would be given to movement by like intervals, >}particularly in the _contrary_ motion resolution of an augmented sixth as= > >}this would seem to be extremely difficult for the ear to judge accurately= > >I think you got my meaning wrong. What I meant was that preference is given >to resolution by like intervals *in the style as a whole*, not in a given >chord. When the listener of tonal music hears an augmented sixth resolve for >the first time, he/she hears both voices doing something very familiar. It is >only the harmonic context which is unfamiliar.