[Smt-talk] Fwd: First Species Question

[David Feurzeig]

>   As David Feurzeig points out, there are various ways to avoid the  
> motion while still creating an impression of "parallel fifthiness."

Did I say that? It's something I would say, but I don't think I did so  
in the current thread. I'm just wondering me if you're crediting me  
for someone else's observation. Threadiquette, you know!

In your summary, you don't include one point I *did* make, which is  
that "opposite fifths" require a degree of leapiness that would be  
unidiomatic anyway, esp. in older styles, esp. in two voices (where  
there aren't more voices to average out the skips). This could explain
a) why it doesn't happen a whole lot, even in older music, and
b) why co Renaissance-era theorist would have had to proscribe it,  
unrelated to any notions of fifths-as-such or concerns about pseudo- 
parallelism.

David Feurzeig
University of Vermont