David and John, thank you for your fast, interesting replies. On the subject of key, I looked up my New Grove, 2nd edition and did not find an answer on this subject yet, but expect I may perhaps under Notation.
But I did read about the Circle of Fifths being first described by Heinichen in 1728, who called it Quintenzirkel. I would not have realised it was spoken about as long ago as that. David McKay www.aussiemusician.blogspot.com 2009/7/8 David W. Fenton <[email protected]> > 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 > -- www.gontroppo.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
