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... century , which cul- minated in the " golden age " of the 16th - century polyphony , may be described as follows : Imagine a flux of simultaneous inde- pendent melodies , so ordered as to form an artistic texture based not only on the ...
... century , which cul- minated in the " golden age " of the 16th - century polyphony , may be described as follows : Imagine a flux of simultaneous inde- pendent melodies , so ordered as to form an artistic texture based not only on the ...
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... century the term " dominant " has this meaning only in the " authentic " modes other than the Phrygian , but as an aesthetic fact it is present in all music , though the theory here given would not have been intelligible to any ...
... century the term " dominant " has this meaning only in the " authentic " modes other than the Phrygian , but as an aesthetic fact it is present in all music , though the theory here given would not have been intelligible to any ...
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... century scale for the pleasure he takes in an unexpectedly bright major at first produced a chaos of style . chord ; or when , in the Incarnatus of his Mass in D , he makes a free use of the Dorian scale , he is actuated by precisely ...
... century scale for the pleasure he takes in an unexpectedly bright major at first produced a chaos of style . chord ; or when , in the Incarnatus of his Mass in D , he makes a free use of the Dorian scale , he is actuated by precisely ...
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... century harmonic scheme . Now , the modern minor mode is too firmly rooted in its minor tonic chord for the 16th - century feeling of an oblique harmonic scheme to be of more than secondary importance , though that feeling survives , as ...
... century harmonic scheme . Now , the modern minor mode is too firmly rooted in its minor tonic chord for the 16th - century feeling of an oblique harmonic scheme to be of more than secondary importance , though that feeling survives , as ...
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... century or a little later . There is a cast of it in the Victoria and Albert Museum . The next oldest is in the Highlands of Scotland , the Clarsach Lumanach , or Lamont's Clarschoe , belonging , with another of later date , to the old ...
... century or a little later . There is a cast of it in the Victoria and Albert Museum . The next oldest is in the Highlands of Scotland , the Clarsach Lumanach , or Lamont's Clarschoe , belonging , with another of later date , to the old ...
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