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In the passage quoted here from Monteverdi's madrigal [Cruda amarilli, mm.9-19 and 24-30], one sees a tonality determined by the characteristic of the accord parfait on the tonic, by the sixth chord assigned to the third and seventh degrees, by the optional choice of the accord parfait or the sixth chord on the sixth degree, and finally, by the accord parfait, and above all, by the unprepared seventh chord (with major third) on the dominant.

François-Joseph Fétis

François-Joseph Fétis

François-Joseph Fétis

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Born: March 25, 1784

Died: March 26, 1871 (aged 87)

Bio: François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

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