On 8 Jul 2009 at 12:25, David McKay wrote: > 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.
Rameau is another crucial figure here in being the first to systematically identify the fundamental of a chord, the first step towards functional harmony as opposed to voice leading. That is, in regular figured bass theory, a 6/3 was just a bass note with a 6th and 3rd above it. Rameau was the first to systematize a description of this as a first inversion of the triad based on the note that is a 6th above the bass. -- 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
