I agree with David van Ooijen, If the b-flat is not held over there is a fifth indeed. However I cannot make coffee out of what David Taylor writes. Surely the b-flat has to be kept sounding untill the high c in the second measure. It needs a bit of practice but it can be done easily.
Lex van Sante Op 23 feb 2010, om 10:19 heeft David van Ooijen het volgende geschreven: > 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 > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [1][email protected] > [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
