page_title: Consecutive fifths
hierarchical_section_title: Consecutive fifths
caption_attribution_description: English: Not parallel fifths on C (octave), to D (fifth), back to C (octave). Created by Hyacinth (talk) 01:47, 29 January 2012 (UTC) using Sibelius 5.
context_page_description: In music, consecutive fifths, or parallel fifths, are progressions in which the interval of a perfect fifth is followed by a different perfect fifth between the same two musical parts: for example, from C to D in one part along with G to A in a higher part. Octave displacement is irrelevant to this aspect of musical grammar; for example, parallel twelfths are equivalent to parallel fifths.
  Though used in, and evocative of, various kinds of popular, folk, and medieval music, parallel motion in perfect consonances is strictly forbidden in species counterpoint instruction and during the common practice period, consecutive fifths were strongly discouraged. This was primarily due to the notion of voice leading in tonal music, in which, "one of the basic goals...is to maintain the relative independence of the individual parts." The perfect intervals sound 'pure'.
  A common theory is that the presence of the 3rd harmonic of the harmonic series influenced the creation of the prohibition.
context_section_description: In music, consecutive fifths, or parallel fifths, are progressions in which the interval of a perfect fifth is followed by a different perfect fifth between the same two musical parts (or voices): for example, from C to D in one part along with G to A in a higher part. Octave displacement is irrelevant to this aspect of musical grammar; for example, parallel twelfths (i.e. an octave plus a fifth) are equivalent to parallel fifths.
  Though used in, and evocative of, various kinds of popular, folk, and medieval music, parallel motion in perfect consonances (P1, P5, P8) is strictly forbidden in species counterpoint instruction (1725–present) and during the common practice period, consecutive fifths were strongly discouraged. This was primarily due to the notion of voice leading in tonal music, in which, "one of the basic goals...is to maintain the relative independence of the individual parts." The perfect intervals (the 4th, 5th and octave) sound 'pure'. 
  A common theory is that the presence of the 3rd harmonic of the harmonic series influenced the creation of the prohibition.
caption: Situations other than consecutive fifths create contrasting melodic lines, melodies that are different from each other. About this soundPlay (help·info)
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