Minors chords - Renaissance - Scale

Paul Erlich wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@egroups.com, "Xavier J.-P. CHARLES" <xcharles@c..>
> > I'm really not a specialist of Renaissance music, but for me it's
> > possible that you are right, that in this music there are minor
> chords
> > which are not really minor chord but III� in a major scale. A
> short
> > example would be interesting for a discussion. Have you one?
>
> Xavier, there was no "major scale", nor "tonal music", until well
> after the Renaissance was over. Listen to some music by Lassus,
> Palestrina, or Victor

Yes, of course, it's because of this real fact that I supposed "minor
chord" in this period is not really a minor chord and then, probably,
(it depends of real CONTEXT), 10-12-15 would be good.

About the concept of scale, I think it makes more problems than it can
solve in JI.
In C major, F can't be in a IV� and in a V� chord at the same pitch.
Then, if the concept af scale is a little bit valuable, we must consider
certain notes as movable.
Xavier