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In these posts, scholars have revealed one of the primary challenges for both writing and evaluating submissions. Despite the fact that the actual scholarship behind these proposals may range from “merely an idea” to publication-ready, we must creat…
I think that your takadimi intuition is correct, but why not use the ubiquitous 1-e-and-a as a more familiar version? "The and of beat four." "The 'a' of beat three."
At least, that seems to be the "obvious" solution that you may have overlooked. I'…
Nicolas, that was my intuition as well. If each leap needs to be consonant and the interval from the first pitch to the third needs to be consonant, you naturally get what we'd call a triad.
Perhaps it wasn't clear, but the subtext of the question …
Ildar,
Forgive me, but I cannot find the words "flexible" or "musical" anywhere in my post above, let alone in reference to figured bass or Roman numerals. I did say that figured bass describes voice leading with greater specificity than Roman nume…