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I find it hard to believe that two fellows wandering home from the field on a summers evening in ancient Greece wouldn't "harmonize"....but there you go. I do know that the harmonies in Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" were considered positively painful in the 1890s; and listen to it now! I'm no musicologist, just a devout lover, but when I listen to 11th century Hildegarde von Bingham, or Peter Abelard, I can see that those harmonies had not been around for thousands of years. They were so fundamentally simple that if they had been around for a millenium or so,then there was a serious case of arrested development going on.[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 04:20, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

I find it hard to believe that two fellows wandering home from the field on a summers evening in ancient Greece wouldn't "harmonize"....but there you go. I do know that the harmonies in Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" were considered positively painful in the 1890s; and listen to it now! I'm no musicologist, just a devout lover, but when I listen to 11th century Hildegarde von Bingham, or Peter Abelard, I can see that those harmonies had not been around for thousands of years. They were so fundamentally simple that if they had been around for a millenium or so,then there was a serious case of arrested development going on.[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 04:20, 23 May 2007 (EDT)