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The Evolution of the Italian Method of Singing Sharps

The cycle of fifths comes naturally out of this practice. It took a century or more, took two, three centuries of singing the sharps as me and the flats as fa. And so our modern system of keys took about two or three centuries to evolve. By the 1800s, it was still not fully, fully in place. Now it's fully in place now. I'd love to dive into the method of the Italians' 18th century methods. So we've got one up on the screen now. This is an example of an improvisation. We start off with a melodic thread. If you look at the very top there, we've got three simple schemata

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