Questions tagged [solmization]
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Did hexachordal theory influence the construction of melodic phrases in Renaissance music?
I'm currently reading Gauldin's Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint, Greene's Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint, and Schubert's Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance style.
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Wouldn’t there be an advantage to songwriting beginning with just one vowel or syllable and are there examples of this historically?
Isn’t this sort of the idea behind Solfege? Not focusing on the assigned pitch aspect of it right now, but the use of syllables with no intent to form words. Also, I am aware that there has been ...
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