Word: major scales
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...this music of simultaneous notes at different pitch was composed in the old diatonic scale and addressed to an attitude of listening which on our hypothesis involved the latent anticipation more or less defined, of the sound of a certain one of its steps. This might in different compositions be any one of five or six different notes of the scale. In a music of chords composed under the influence of the feeling of tonality the triad on the tonic becomes the most important of all possible combinations of notes and appears at all points of close in a composition...
...other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic note. In the Harmonic style which at the Reformation succeeded Polyphony the modes of E F and G fell out of use. The mode of C became the modern major scale; and those in A and D united to form the modern minor. In this process of development the diatonic scale itself become modified for reasons which will be referred to in the lecture on Harmony...