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The Bridges that Never Were: Schenker on the Contrapuntal Origin of the Triad and Seventh Chord

Eytan Agmon, 1997

Music Theory Online 3.1

Schenker’s success in bridging the gap between strict counterpoint and free composition is reassessed, in view of the finding that in each of these two domains the notions “triad” and “seventh chord” assume qualitatively different meanings.