[Smt-talk] Fwd: First Species Question

[Dmitri Tymoczko]

I did a little computer search, and found a nice Renaissance instance  
of consecutive fifths in two voices: Josquin's "Gaude Virgo, Mater  
Christi" at "Fulget resurrectio," where the soprano and alto sing (C4,  
G4)->(C5, F4).

You can find an online version here (m. 51):

http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/jos-gaud.pdf

It occurs to me that there are two distinct phenomena here:  
"antiparallel fifths" such as (C4, G4)->(F3, C5), and "crossed fifths"  
such as (C4, G4)->(C5, F4).  In the latter case, we create genuine  
parallels by removing a voice crossing; in the first case, we create  
the parallels by shifting octave.

DT

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