History
In the theories of Rameau (1722), chords in different positions were considered functionally equivalent. However, theories of counterpoint before Rameau spoke of different intervals in different ways, such as the regola delle terze e seste ("rule of sixths and thirds") which required the resolution of imperfect consonances to perfect ones, and would not propose a similarity between and sonorities, for instance.
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