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Posted by 02
on 9/11/2009, 11:32 am, in reply to "Question on Harmony"
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That's a good question and sounds like a musicology thesis. In my view, most treatises like this offer a bit of original thinking but mostly research. Consider that Fux's Gradus was published AFTER Rameau's Treatise. It seems likely that composers were thinking both horizontally and vertically.
Consider Bach's quadruple stops in the solo violin works; is that counterpoint, or is it a triad? It seems apparent that Bach and Haydn (and everyone else) were onto something new with the triadic treatment of the counterpoint and Rameau happened to put the new ideas into fixed form.
It would be interesting, though, to research just what exactly is original thinking in Rameau's Treatise.
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