Musicians and Music Theorists are rarely one and the same person :)
It is not necessary to name or classify anything while making music -
Music Theory is mostly after the fact.
Theory is taught, but novelties appear regardless - see Monteverdi and
Artusi.
Am 26.07.2018 um 19:11 schrieb Leonard Williams:
How would musicians like Dowland or Johnson have named their
chords? Were they thinking in chord progressions, modalities,
incidental chords arising in polyphonic cadences? I guess this is a
question of music theory evolution.
Leonard
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From: Leonard Williams <arc...@verizon.net>
To: lute <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 8:54 am
Subject: [LUTE] chord names
As chordal music (as opposed to polyphonic) became more prevalent,
and many modes became history, how were chords named? G maj, A min,
...? Tonic, dominant, etc? When did this start?
Just curious.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
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