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Fuxisms

🔗astrange <ASTRANGE@EMAIL.SJSU.EDU>

3/28/2001 7:41:12 AM
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One of the jewels in Fux's book is when he explains to his student that
the reason a voice always resolves downward out of a dissonance is due
to the law of gravity!!!

Allen Strange

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com>

3/28/2001 8:21:00 AM

Alan!
I would imagine that the Greeks, seeing the scale coming down from the heavens, might have
resolved things upward!

astrange wrote:

> One of the jewels in Fux's book is when he explains to his student that
> the reason a voice always resolves downward out of a dissonance is due
> to the law of gravity!!!

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

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