[Smt-talk] Scale degrees

[Robert O Gjerdingen]

To Nick et al.,

	One might push the date back a little further with the Regole of Bernardo Pasquini, a surviving student copy of which is dated 7 Jan., 1715.  Pasquini there recites the first parts of the Rule of the Octave, as in "Alla prima del tuono non si possono dare consonanze che 3: 5: 8:, Alla seconda del tuono . . . ." [For the first degree of the key one can only use the consonances 3, 5, and 8; for the second degree . . . ."]. Pasquini's Regole might go as far back as the 1680s since other partimenti manuscripts by him are likely of that vintage.

Best wishes,
Bob Gjerdingen
Northwestern Univ.