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=== English interval names in the Baroque === | === English interval names in the Baroque === | ||
[[File:Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds, Section 2 figure 3.png|thumb| | [[File:Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds, Section 2 figure 3.png|thumb|517x548px|''Harmonics, or The Philosophy of Musical Sounds'', Edition 2, Smith, 1759, Section 2: On the Names and Notation of consonance and their intervals, Fig. 2 & 3 , pg. 10]] | ||
After English superseded Latin as the the main language of scholarship, the Latin interval names were rejected and the convention we saw in Zarlino's Italian for naming the smaller of a pair of sizes of an interval 'minor' and the larger 'major' was further applied. | After English superseded Latin as the the main language of scholarship, the Latin interval names were rejected and the convention we saw in Zarlino's Italian for naming the smaller of a pair of sizes of an interval 'minor' and the larger 'major' was further applied. | ||