Harmony and counterpoint

Ammonia Exercise

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Reply 22 by Ludovica

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Zedef wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Anyway, it's a trifle since in practice one doesn't find intervals that exceed the more than au/etc.

il sense was that of your subsequent posts.

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Reply 25 by Oracolo

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DanielePiano wrote:

anyway Zedef, however, Piston considers them excess, he doesn't even call it the augmented interval... strange.

In the meantime, I am attaching other exercises.

page 10 no.3, on the minor second, the diminished sixth... I would take a look at it

page 10 no.4: I think you are off-topic

Page 10 no. 5:

a) you'd think more of Eb major, F minor would be natural but is not provided for by ascending motion, so perhaps it's better to indicate a modal scale

b) also G+, for example

c) also D- harmonic, for example

d) also E+, for example

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Reply 26 by DanelePiano

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I understood the errors in ex. 3: the minor 2nd is not Reb-Mi but Reb-Mib; the diminished 6th Reb-Sibb is not correct because it is a minor sixth, it should be Reb-Sibbb... a special case where the B is diminished three times.

Regarding exercise 4 instead, I didn't understand....why are they off-topic??

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Reply 28 by DanelePiano

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Yes....two intervals are said to be enharmonic when played outside of a musical context they produce two equal sounds, but in the presence of a musical context they produce different sounds. Example: D-F and C##-E# ....C#-D and Db-Ebb

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Reply 29 by Oracolo

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Exactly Daniele, do you find a correspondence between the dyads of 10.4 and 10.3?

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Reply 31 by Oracolo

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Ok, I read: "10.4 write the enharmonic equivalents of the previous exercise 10.3"

So, 10.3:

-10.3.a) Db A, I expect in 10.4 something like C# Bbb... I read Db, A

-10.3.b ) Db Eb, I expect in 10.4 something like C# Fb... I read Dbb, Bb

Etc.

I think then that I haven't understood the requirements of the exercise

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Reply 32 by DanelePiano

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The exercise simply asks to write two intervals that are enharmonically equivalent to each other.

What is your definition of an enharmonic interval??

Isn't Db enharmonic to C#??

Isn't Eb enharmonic to D#??

Isn't Db enharmonic to Bb??

Isn't Db enharmonic to E??

etc...

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Reply 33 by DanelePiano

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I reviewed the exercise and noticed that some are wrong.... but not all... in fact, in ex. 10 no. 4, only the 1st pair and the 4th are wrong; the rest should be correct.

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