Playable BooksJean-Philippe Rameau · section 18 of 109
CHAPTER FOUR. On the Nature and Properties of the Fifth and Fourth
Read and hear this section in the playable edition →The fifth is the primary object of every chord: a chord cannot exist without it or without the fourth representing it. We have already observed the properties of these two intervals in the bass's progression. In the other parts, their progression is approximately the same as that of the octave.