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Need help with Fux
I've just started to work on Joseph Fux' The Study of Counterpoint (unfortunately without a teacher. There's no one around here, but that'll hopefully change when I move this autumn!). I enjoy it a lot, but the a lot of the music theory in it is alien to me.
I may make this a returning thread, where I ask questions as I encounter them, but for now, there's only two things I'm wondering about:
1. Why both a g and c clef? (obviously, the c clef is the valid one)
2. I don't understand the error made on page 31 (Alfred Mann edition). At the risk of breaking copyright laws, I'll include a small quote:
"...the cantus firmus is in D (la, sol, re), as the beginning and conclusion show, and you started with G (sol, re, ut), you have obviously forced the the beginning out of the mode".
What exactly does mode mean here? I know THE modes, but it must have some other meaning in this example?
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