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<div><font face="Arial">Dear List,</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">does anyone know who was the first theorist to number the scale (especially in the bass) from 1 to 7? </font></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"></font></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">This is a mainstay of partimento rules, as in ‘add a 3rd and a 5th to the FIRST</font><em><font face="Arial"> </font></em><font face="Arial">of the scale, add a 3rd and a 6th to the SECOND</font><font face="Arial"> of the scale, etc.’ It remains fundamental to modern approaches to tonality. </font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><font face="Arial">Although a seven-note scale is implicit in the modal system, in counting intervals in counterpoint, and in the French seven-note solfa system, I have not been able to find any occurrences earlier than about 1750. Numbered scales are commonly found in late 18th-century sources, such as </font><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Fenaroli
(1775), Paisiello (1782), Azopardi (1786), and of course Vogler. But neither A. Scarlatti nor Durante numbered the notes of the scale. They used a Guidonian system which is incompatible with the notion of seven scale degrees. </font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'></span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Could scale degrees be a late 18th-century invention? </font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Private responses are welcome. </font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'></span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Nick Baragwanath</font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Associate Professor in Music</font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">University of Nottingham</font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">University Park,</font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="Arial">Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK</font></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><a href="mailto:nicholas.baragwanath@nottingham.ac.uk"><font face="Arial">nicholas.baragwanath@nottingham.ac.uk</font></a></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'></span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial Regular"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'></span></font><br></div><div><br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><br></div>
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