How would musicians like Dowland or Johnson have named their chords? Were they thinking in chord progressions, modalities, incidental chords arising in polyphonic cadences? I guess this is a question of music theory evolution. Leonard
-----Original Message----- From: Leonard Williams <arc...@verizon.net> To: lute <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 8:54 am Subject: [LUTE] chord names As chordal music (as opposed to polyphonic) became more prevalent, and many modes became history, how were chords named? G maj, A min, ...? Tonic, dominant, etc? When did this start? Just curious. Regards, Leonard Williams -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
