10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIERCE DE PICARDIE»
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1
A Student's Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint
When a major version of chord I is used to brighten the ending of a passage in a
minor key it is known as a tierce de Picardie. The origin of the term is unclear, but
'tierce' refers to the 3rd of the tonic chord (which is unexpectedly major) and it ...
2
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians: ed. by J. A. ...
TIERCE DE PICARDIE. In polyphonic music it is essential that every composition
should end with a Major Third, even though the Third of the Mode in which it is
written should be minor. The Third, thus made major by an accidental sharp or ...
Sir George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Waldo Selden Pratt, 1910
3
A Digest of the Analyses of J. S. Bach's Forty-eight Fugues ...
147), a Coda upon a figure in C.S. with prolonged cadence, Tierce de Picardie,
bars 56—58 p. 364 18', Ffl—Sub. (8), bars 31433 (p. 153), a Coda upon a figure
in C.S., inverted, in imitation, Treble, Bass and Alto, bars 33—35 p. 365 14', F1;
mi ...
4
Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi
In a chaconne, for instance, one is as likely to encounter a “minor” enclave amid
a prevalent “major” tonality as the opposite.19 In Italy the main vehicle for major-
minor interchange remained the tierce de Picardie, where at important cadence ...
Bella Brover-Lubovsky, 2008
5
The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750
This fugue also teaches about the conventional closure of minor- mode music in
the major, by altering the interval of a minor third in its final tonic chord into the
more conclusive major third (the so-called tierce de Picardie; here C + E)). Again
...
6
The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed
Now the tierce de Picardie is very rarely used, composers preferring to maintain
the minor mode to the end. Why Picardy should give the name to this close is at
present unknown. TIER RA-DEL-FUE GO, a group of islands separated from the
...
National cyclopaedia, John H F. Brabner, 1884
7
The Musician: A Guide for Pianoforte Students, Helps Towards ...
Note again the exquisite change from minor to major, fourteen bars before the
end, which produces an effect somewhat similar to that of the old-fashioned tierce
de Picardie. It was long held imperative that a composition in a minor key should
...
8
Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-tone and its use in ...
... closed form:5 Choir first semi-verse second semi-verse I G minor (tenor: d) - B|,
major F major (tenor: c) - D, tierce de Picardie II G minor - D major C minor - G,
tierce de Picardie Example 11.1 Miserere mei, Gregorio Allegri Miserere
Miserere ...
Dr Mattias Lundberg, 2012
The Tierce de Picardie. Sometimes music written in a minor key ends with a
major tonic chord. This chord is known. as the Tierce de Picardie and is produced
by raising the third of la by an accidental. It is more commonly used witli plagal ...
10
Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works
In both D 887 and D 956 the ending of the whole work creates a Tierce de
Picardie in what was nominally a major-key finale (but began in the tonic minor);
in D 956 this is, famously, compromised by a last, slanted gesture towards the
minor.
Prof Dr Susan Wollenberg, 2013
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Album Review: Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orchestra – 'Sylva'
Bill Laurence and Cory Henry to play what seems to be a Bach inspired duet, finishing with a beautiful tierce de Picardie. The ending pieces of both suites are ... «Impact Magazine, Apr 15»
