On 7 Jul 2009 at 21:31, John Howell wrote: > So it was a simple carryover from earlier practice which, obviously, > still made sense to people. As to when the modern convention was > adopted (which of course still requires accidentals for the raised > 6th and 7th degrees), I don't really know, but I'd bet someone who > has studied a lot of late 18th and early 19th century music will have > an idea.
It happened in the 18th century, earlier rather than later, but not uniformly for all repertories. Church music (and other genres that had recognizable "archaicisms" among their conventions) retained the practice longer than other repertories. Likewise, some dance repertories that were "modal" would have maintained the older conventions. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
