Originally posted by Pabmusic
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Originally posted by jean
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But I had forgotten, and was only reminded on listening my way through the COTW on Josquin*, that the ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la... which sounds so comfortingly like the diatonic major is not so at all, lacking the link to the upper ut in which it is not interested, and to which it provides no link. It is in fact a hexachord, and if the composer aspires to go beyond la, they enter a new hexachord.
Or something.
What does this mean?
*About five minutes in.
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