10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICARDY THIRD»
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Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and ...
In absolute music, where there is no text, the function of the picardy third must be,
as I construe such music, a purely- "syntactical" one. For absolute music is, as I
see it, a pure "syntactic" structure — a "syntax" without a semantics. Nevertheless
...
2
The Liturgical Flutist: A Method Book and More
Take the example of a Picardy third. This harmonic change occurs at the end of a
piece that has been entirely set in a minor key. The final chord is changed to a
major chord, altering the quality of the sound from the minor to the major mode.
Denise LaGiglia, Anna Belle O'Shea, 2005
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New Sounds, New Stories: Narrativity in Contemporary Music
Because the Picardy third occurs so frequently here it no longer stands out in the
music, it has become an unmarked term, whereas it originally was marked. As a
consequence, when after the repeated occurrence of the Picardy third another ...
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Articles on Cadences, Including: Cadenza, Cadence (Music), ...
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Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and ...
Minor Key (Presumed) Final Cadence Marked ness Marked, Picardy third in
opposition to expected i. Originally unmarked; now, after establishment' of (1.),
marked with respect to the expectation of a Picardy third. Marked, as in (2.), but
also as ...
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Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal ...
Talking about the use of the sign of diesis to change an unpleasantly sounding
minor third to a smoother- sounding major one (Aaron may well have had the so-
called Picardy third in mind here), the theorist added: Although this sign is little ...
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Music at the Turn of Century: A 19th-century Music Reader
The first three curtailments also coincide with an abrupt ca- dential turn from
minor to major harmony — a Picardy third. This feature has been much criticized
as blandly inappropriate to the text.20 Assuming that Schubert knew what he was
...
8
Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs
The fact that “Auf ein altes Bild” consists, in one summation, of a string of Picardy-
third cadences in close proximity tells of endings, of eschatology, with all the
Baroque symbolism of the Picardy third intact from its earlier enthronement in
Bach's ...
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A Plaine and Easie Guide to Music Theory, Volume 1
This catchy harmonic alteration is called the Picardy third, after a region in France
(not after a captain in Star Trek). The correct label for such a chord is I, the same
label as the tonic triad of the parallel major. It doesn't need any more hoopla ...
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Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory
ures of the movement (Adagio; pure homophony; duple meter), he obviously
moves to the key of B minor with a Picardy third in the tenor voice. Whereas this
entire “modal” movement serves as a contrast to the preceding and following ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICARDY THIRD»
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Musicians choose their favourite carols
It has a haunting English quality to it with its bare ancient harmonies and sudden major third (called a Picardy third, for those who are interested ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 09»
