On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Daniel Winheld/dt wrote:
   >>somehow I have a blind spot: I still dont see the fifths!).
   >
   > I think going from the last chord in the first measure (low open G,
   > still providing bass note from 3rd beat with open 2nd course d)
   > -moving to first chord of 2nd measure, E-flat b-flat e chord. G-d to
   > E-flat-b-flat are parallel fifths. Never quite liked the sound of it
   We must have gone to different counterpoint classes. ;-)
   Poulton edition. Monospaced font.
   -a--------------d---|-----f-d-r-----
   -a-----d-b-a----a---|-b---------e---
   -b-----a---b-d------|-b-------d-f---
   -----r--------------|-----------e---
   --------------------|-d---------r---
   -a---------a--------|---------------
   I read
   Measure 1
   3rd quarter: G - d' (fifth)
   4th quarter: G - b-flat' (third)
   Measure 2
   1st quarter: e-flat - b-flat' (fifth)
   I don't hear the parallel fifth from measure 1 3rd quarter to measure 2
   1st quarter. I hear the third on the 4th quarter being held into the
   fifth.
   And how is it corrected in LoST or the song, for that matter)? I see
   the same sequence, transposed up a tone.
   How I hear this spot
   The b-flat on the 1st quarter note of measure 2 is held over from
   measure 1 (3rd finger, play the E-flat chord with a barre and 2nd
   finger on the 5th course), I always try to play the chord softly so the
   melody is clearly sustained. I hear harmonic tension from bass note
   e-flat (with passing a' on top: tritonus!) to d in measure 2, I hear
   middle voice rising all the way from g halfway measure 1 to halfway
   measure 2, joining the top voice on the final f-sharp'. Added interest
   in new middle voice in measure 2 b-flat rising to d'. Such a rich
   writing; all of that in just the two opening measures!
   David - sorry, still blind (deaf?) spot
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