Question about parallel fifths

Subject: RE: Question about parallel fifths
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 07:18 AM

Bollocks! The zapped it before I posted...

Subject: RE: Question about parallel fifths
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 06:15 AM

Here is another explanation for the ban on parallel fifths: https://www.academia.edu/73594631/Why_are_parallel_fifths_forbidden

Subject: RE: Question about parallel fifths
From: Stanron
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 08:07 AM

OK, to put the wooden spoon of pedantry in the murky bowl of musical porridge, and give it a good stir, there are three types of fifth. The Perfect Fifth, which is 7 semitones above the tonic, the Augmented Fifth which is 8 semitones above the tonic or starting note and the Diminished or flattened Fifth which is 6 semitones above the original note.

NOTE Diatonically means using only the notes in the scale.

We think of the interval between note one of the scale and note five as the fifth interval, of course, but the interval between note two and note six is also a fifth. As is the interval between note three and note seven and so on and so on. These are all perfect fifths with one exception. The interval between note seven and the note four above it is a Diminished Fifth, 6 semitones. This is why, by the way, the chord formed diatonically on the seventh note of a major scale is always a Diminished Chord.

Add salt to your porridge to taste.

Subject: RE: Question about parallel fifths
From: GUEST,Guest Anon
Date: 15 Mar 22 - 05:28 AM

Use your ears, rules are useful to some extent but they are there to be broken, example Galileo and the then Establishment, he was right.

Subject: RE: Question about parallel fifths
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 09:42 AM

In American Appalachian or early country music and even in this of the 20's, open fifths were a characteristic of what the bluegrass's call "the high lonesome sound".

To answer the original question, I would opt in favor of 3rds, 6ths or 10ths in harmonizing in a jam session. The use of 5ths would be a judicious one.

I like the way Ewan McColl and (I can't think of his name now) sing "Go Down You Blood Red Roses" in 5ths. It gives is a stark and rugged effect. The original version of "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" was collected as a so-called "white spiritual" with open 5ths reminiscent of shape note singing which use a lot of open 5ths.

The old joke is: whenever you find four Episcopalians together, you find a 5th.