10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMITONAL»
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semitonal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Operas of Alban Berg: Wozzeck
The semitonal scale (mm. 638-642), by means of which the e\) in the bass of mm.
636-637 is transferred to the lower octave, is aligned note-for-note with the final
statement, in the top line, of the twelve-tone Pas- sacaglia theme. The music of ...
2
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
The pulse-like materials tend to consist either of a single note, semitonal pairs or
clusters, such that their gradual superimposition fills out a block of the chromatic
spectrum, often in several registers simultaneously. The chordal material, for ...
3
A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal
and the succession of all four tonic triads displays a systematic semitonal
displacement of three, two, and one pitch-classes. Figure 6.3 analyzes this
semitonal displacement in two ways: as hexatonic transformations using Cohn's
transposition ...
William Kinderman, Katherine Rae Syer, 2005
4
Rereading "The Language of Music": Toward a Reconciliation ...
Minor Second: Semitonal tension down to the tonic, in a minor context: spiritless
anguish, context of finality. Major Second: As a passing note, emotionally neutral.
As a whole-tone tension down to the tonic, in a major context, pleasurable ...
Kenneth F. Cardillo, 2008
5
Pierre Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame
Compare this with the considerable amount of semitonal movement in the lines of
the first movement Adagio of the Boston symphony or the Entrée of Une messe
dominicale and the parallels are clear. It was noted earlier that there are also ...
6
Early Chinese Work in Natural Science: A Re-examination of ...
The semitonal structure of the octave generated by the fourth is shown in Figure
29 (the right side) in comparison with that generated by the fifth (the left side). The
only difference between the two semitonal structures is that the arrangement in ...
An ordered set is one of 479,001,600 permutations of the semitonal scale. By
transposition or inversion each element of a given ordered set is convertible into
an element of a second ordered set, such that respective elements of the two sets
, ...
A train of semitonal progressions in the bass leads to the introduction of a
contrasting idea, an extended melody, which is shown in Ex. 54. Semitonal
inflexions pervade the rest of the first subject group and the bridge passage: even
when the ...
9
Musik im Exil: die Schweiz und das Ausland 1918-1945
Semitonal adjacency b. 1-8, 1979 b. 14-15, 1979 More enlightening still is a
chromatic clue found in Vivaldi's slow introduction that seems to present a
solution to Schaeuble's enigmatic approach to the problem of relative keys now
that the ...
Chris Walton, Antonio Baldassarre, 2005
10
Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the ...
Aside from this assumption, it is impossible to state the fundamental conditions of
atonality in general, except in a negative way, merely stipulating the absence of a
priori functional connections among the twelve notes of the semitonal scale.
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMITONAL»
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semitonal is used in the context of the following news items.
Kozhukhin, BBCSO, Oramo, Barbican
... of string notes, brass uproars and semitonal wind screams. Oramo (pictured above) gauged the biggest of the collapses with almost frightening concentration, ... «The Arts Desk, May 15»
Pure raga, pure piano: Deepak Shah brings Indian ragas to Western …
"Western music moves distinctly from one note to another while Indian classical music navigates even the semitonal calibrations in between to go back and forth ... «Daily News & Analysis, May 15»
LSO/Mark Elder/Imogen Cooper review – a breath of fresh air for …
The orchestra magnificently brought out the way Lady Macbeth's material slides into the room, its semitonal windings seeping into the more foursquare heroism ... «The Guardian, May 14»
Bach St John Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Egarr, Barbican …
... to illustrate the crown of thorns – were echoed by his superb orchestral players; from the knife-thrust of the oboes' semitonal clashes in the opening, you could ... «The Arts Desk, Mar 13»
Coote, BBCSO, Saraste, Barbican Hall
There are noises throughout the symphony which any composer writing today would kill to discover: the clashing semitonal drone of two low-register horns, ... «The Arts Desk, Oct 12»
Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra: 100% Vegan
Onion skins are used to make a distinctive rustling sound, while hollowed-out root vegetables inserted in a glass of water produce a lovely semitonal burbling. «Village Voice, Nov 10»
