The Foundations of Music

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The Foundations of Music
Henry J Henry Jackson Watt
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Here we see a number of factors influencing the essential factor in question the degree of consonance of the ('exposed') interval; we can see to some extent the direction of the influence, whether it is favourable or unfavourable and we can perhaps assess them against one another. But the general result is hardly as clear as is desirable for scientific aesthetic purposes. Finally, he points out that "progressions which are unsatisfactory in two or even three parts may be quite good in four or f
...ive parts. " This he says is due partly to the doubling of notes common to both chords, partly to the distribution of the listener's 128 HIDDEN OCTAVES AND FIFTHS, ETC. [CH.
attention over a greater number, when "the progression of any two parts (even when they are outside parts) must in some corresponding proportion become less noticeable" (cf. 50, 255 f. , 296).
The result of this analysis of representative authors may seem hopelessly confused, as it must certainly be highly unsatisfactory from any practical point of view 1 .


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