[r-t] Cyclic 7-parts of major

Richard Smith richard at ex-parrot.com
Thu Sep 26 15:32:29 BST 2019


rchat at allton.org.uk wrote:

> RAS>  But what irony if the first cyclic 7-part turns out to have been of the so-called standard eight!
>
> The first cyclic 7-part could be considered to be the 5040 
> Stedman Triples by H Law James first published in Bell 
> News V27(1908) p232.

I don't think it's likely that the first cyclic 7-part of 
major was a composition of Stedman Triples.  I thought the 
subject line of my email was fairly clear what I was looking 
for.

RAS




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