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Avoid parallel fifths and octaves. To promote voice independence, melodic lines should avoid parallel unisons, parallel fifths, and parallel octaves between any two voices. [ 19 ] They should also avoid hidden consecutives , perfect intervals reached by any two voices moving in the same direction, even if not by the same interval, particularly ...
The use of parallel fifths (or fourths) to refer to the sound of traditional Chinese or other kinds of Eastern music was once commonplace in film scores and songs. Since these passages are an obvious oversimplification and parody of the styles that they seek to evoke, this use of parallel fifths declined during the last half of the 20th century.
Just my two cents, but I think the theory that chanting in parallel fifths developed out of confusion of equivalent notes is a reasonable one, and one that has had some currency in the scholarly literature. 76.118.181.158 05:09, 28 August 2007 (UTC) Both parallel fifths and octaves weaken the acousitical integrity of the parts, yes?
After some impassioned testimony on both sides, California senators voted on party lines Thursday to approve a bill that would ban school districts from passing policies requiring staff to notify ...
Sonja Shaw, president of Chino Valley Unified School District, at a news conference at the state Capitol on Aug. 14 to oppose a series of education bills in the Legislature that she says would ...
The strict alternation of 1-5-8-10 and 1-3-5-8 voicings has a particularly valuable property for improvised polyphony: it cannot produce parallel octaves or parallel fifths. In four-part settings of unornamented successions of simple triads, parallel octaves can only occur when the doubled chord tone appears in the same two voices two chords in ...
Rumors that San Luis Obispo County school districts are placing litter boxes in restrooms to accommodate students who identify as “furries” are false, school district administrators say.
5th parallel may refer to: 5th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere; 5th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere; Consecutive fifths or parallel fifths, a term used in music