Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2019 00:03 CET, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> schrieb: > > > On Jan 9, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Mark Probert <probe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And I am, sad to say, ignorant of the actual meaning of "D la.sol.re". > > I believe it’s just a convention of combining varying names for one note: D > might be la, re or sol depending on which > hexachord you assume, so it became standard to use all three names,
The important part to understand is: notes where named using some kind of "coordinate" system. One "axis" is what we today call "note name" (or "pitch class" if you are hipp :-), which was back then called "claves" (lit. the name of the key). The other axis was the hexachord syllable (then called "voces"/"voice"). Pretty much the first thing students learned was the name/voice of all existing notes. Knowing all the possible "voices"a note can be was very important for proper "mutation" (i.e. knowing on what notes you can change from one hexachord into another). So, in your example, a student singing a 'D la sol re' in the durum hexachord would know that he could change to the natural hexachord by making a D->sol to D->re mutation. The nice thing about such a system is that those "voces" give you a lot of extra context. Seeing an e-fa will tell you what notes can be found on both sides of that note. This is _very_ helpful for playing basso continuo, esp. from sparsely figured basses. For example, the 65-chord over a mi will have a minor sixth and a diminished 5 while the 65 over a fa will have a perfect 5etc. > although, like a lot of Fux’s book, it was very old fashioned in 1704. ??? Whut? That system was widely used well into the 19th (!sic) century. It's just that a lot of researches tend to skip the early chapters of contemporary manuals. Just have a look at some of the most important instruction manuals and how much (expensive!) space they dedicate top proper solmization teaching. Cheers, RalfD > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
