<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">This is undoubtedly not the first usage, but Cherubini comments on the relationship between authentic and plagal modes and cadences (dividing the 8ve into 5th+4th vs. 4th+5th) in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cours de contrepoint et de fugue</i> (Paris: M. Schlesinger, c. 1837), v. 2, ch. 7.</font></p>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Nicole Biamonte</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/22 Peter Schubert, Prof. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.schubert@mcgill.ca">peter.schubert@mcgill.ca</a>></span><br>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What I’d like to know is where this term occurs for the first time. I don’t recall seeing it in any treatise in the sixteenth century or even the early 17<sup>th</sup>. My bet is French treatises from the late 17<sup>th</sup>-early 18<sup>th</sup> cc.</span></font><br>
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