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| Posted By : Motet - 1/22/2016 3:37 PM | For fun I tried the "Find parallel motion" plug-in on a piece in four-part harmony with this result:
Anyone use this? Any idea what it thinks it sees? What is meant under "staff"?
(BTW, it would be useful if it looked for direct fifths and octaves as well.)
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| Posted By : Michel R. E. - 1/22/2016 3:49 PM | it's a pretty pointless add-on.
it sees parallels where there are none.
in this case, it's seeing that there is an E in both soprano and alto, and there is a C in soprano and tenors.
it does not distinguish parallels between actual voices but looks at ALL notes as though it were a single line.
it's either highly defective, or the person who designed it didn't understand counterpoint.
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| Posted By : Motet - 1/22/2016 3:53 PM | Thanks for the confirmation. It seems like such a thing would be very useful to first-year harmony students.
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| Posted By : Zuill - 1/22/2016 4:45 PM | So are "eyes". That's the tool I used in first-year harmony. When have we given up on good old brain-power for students?
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| Posted By : Derrek - 1/22/2016 5:52 PM | +1 for Zuill!
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| Posted By : Motet - 1/22/2016 6:09 PM | What do your eyes think of the fifth between soprano and bass from beats 2 to 3?
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| Posted By : Michel R. E. - 1/22/2016 6:14 PM | Motet said...
What do your eyes think of the fifth between soprano and bass from beats 2 to 3?
I think it's movement from a diminished 5th to a perfect 5th which places the passage on the border of acceptability.
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| Posted By : Zuill - 1/23/2016 1:38 AM | There are many factors involved. The distance between Bass and Soprano (compound interval) is one. Also, the parallel third between Bass and Tenor gives less exposure to the Bass/Soprano movement.
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| Posted By : Gareth Green - 1/23/2016 5:54 AM | Michel R. E. said...Motet said...
What do your eyes think of the fifth between soprano and bass from beats 2 to 3? I think it's movement from a diminished 5th to a perfect 5th which places the passage on the border of acceptability.
It would still make me wince if I heard it ...
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| Posted By : Derrek - 1/23/2016 11:50 AM | +1 Gareth
I was just about to ask Motet, "What do your ears say/"
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| Posted By : Motet - 1/23/2016 11:56 AM | The 4-part harmony sounds OK to me (I did not write this).
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| Posted By : Zuill - 1/23/2016 12:19 PM | Personally, my ears never had a problem with many parallel or direct 5ths or octaves. Context is what counts. The literature is full of them, but when it works, it works. The guidelines are not rules. It's an artist who makes the judgment call.
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P.S.: Just perused a few Bach chorales to confirm my suspicion. I recall my theory professor getting irritated when I would find such examples. So many years ago.
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| Posted By : Perotinus - 1/23/2016 10:11 PM | Then there are all those pieces written by my namesake and his contemporaries. Brilliant works, but not up to the straightjackets that started in the 15th-16th centuries.
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| Posted By : Motet - 1/24/2016 1:45 AM | I'm pretty ignorant of the Notre Dame school, but organum isn't really counterpoint, is it?
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| Posted By : Perotinus - 1/24/2016 7:40 AM | Depends on how strict a definition of counterpoint you will allow. In Perotin's four-part organa, for example, there are some amazing contrapuntal passages among the upperthree parts (the segment on [Ad]iu[va] in his "Sederunt principes," for instance). Numerous conducti are also adventurous, and thirteenth-century motets thrive on the independence of their various parts.
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| Posted By : Peter Bowron - 12/1/2016 1:16 AM | | Not sure I agree with the criticism of the tool - I've just started using this, and as Michael R.E said, it's picked the parallel motion between a couple of different voices. That's what the tool is supposed to do - under certain conditions parallel 5ths and octaves are considered undesirable. If you do a piano reduction, you will see the motion more clearly. I have an old accompaniment writing book by William Lovelock which gives many examples. So, the piano reduction of the piece nominated would be consecutive octaves in the RH, which are acceptable according to my source. They are rules that can be broken, just use your ears and maybe try out some classical solutions if you think it can be improved. I am finding the tool useful when the desired accompaniment is arpeggio form - found one in my first two bars that I'd missed! |
| Posted By : Motet - 12/1/2016 2:11 AM | I think the objection was that there are a lot of false positives.
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| Posted By : Michel R. E. - 12/1/2016 2:53 AM | Peter Bowron said...
Not sure I agree with the criticism of the tool - I've just started using this, and as Michael R.E said, it's picked the parallel motion between a couple of different voices. That's what the tool is supposed to do - under certain conditions parallel 5ths and octaves are considered undesirable. If you do a piano reduction, you will see the motion more clearly. I have an old accompaniment writing book by William Lovelock which gives many examples. So, the piano reduction of the piece nominated would be consecutive octaves in the RH, which are acceptable according to my source. They are rules that can be broken, just use your ears and maybe try out some classical solutions if you think it can be improved. I am finding the tool useful when the desired accompaniment is arpeggio form - found one in my first two bars that I'd missed!
I think you missed my criticism of the "feature".
if there is an octave between your soprano and alto, let's say both D, then on the next beat an octave between soprano and tenor, for simplicity's sake E in both voices, the plugin will mark those as "parallel octaves", which they are not. For octaves to be parallel they must be between the same two voices. In our example it would have to be D followed by E, in both the soprano and alto.
Applying the plugin to a 4-staff choral score will bring up more "false positives", as Motet has called them, than actual parallel octaves.
You could use the plugin to check the soprano and alto staves, or the alto and tenor, or the tenor and bass staves, but you cannot let it run all four staves at once.
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| Posted By : Dr. Wiggy - 12/1/2016 4:57 AM | All of which explains its removal from Finale 25. It didn't work.
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