Tritone

Analysis of Excerpts of Representative Composers As mentioned earlier in this chapter, polymodality can be traced back to the baroque period. Figure 1.3 shows an excerpt of J. S. Bach’s Four Duets No. 2 BWV 303, measures 43-46. This is an example of contrapuntal writing, where Bach creates a canon a perfect fourth lower from the top voice. The upper melody is composed in a D melodic minor scale, and the lower voice is written in A melodic minor. Mosco Carner states that “Bach in contrast to…

using an unprepared suspension. These set classes form the A part of the piece. Measures 3 and 4 presents 02356 in the treble while its inversion, 01346, plays in the bass. Consolidating it as one idea, the first four measures ends with descending tritones. Interlocking eight notes featuring 01346 and 0124 alternate between the treble and bass in the ascending material in measures 5 to 7 and ends on 0124 with D-sharp in the treble. Out of this D-sharp,…

Triton is a demigod in greek mythology he is known as the messenger of the sea. Most of you know him as Ariel's dad from the “Little mermaid.” In the movie, they make him look mighty and powerful but he's really not the man of the sea in greek mythology. The great man of the sea is Poseidon since he has control over that realm and is Tritons boss man. Tritons parents are Poseidon and Amphitrite God and Goddess of the sea. Tritons living status is an immense golden palace under the sea. Sure that…

presumably to sound better with the duplum. For example, in Factum est salutare/Dominus, measure 18 has a Bb, as seen in figure 3, in place of the original B natural like in the original score. This was a common practice done in order to avoid the tritone, this case containing B in the tenor and F in the duplum. In Fole acostumance/Dominus, the “dominus” is melodically nearly the same as it was in the original chant, however, the melody restarts from the beginning after measure 43 while the text…

In his emotive lieder In der Frühe, Hugo Wolf utilizes key center discrepancies between piano accompaniment and the vocal line, lack of clear cadential motion, and quick-tempered movements through various tonal centers for the purpose of demonstrating the emotional complexity of a lost man struggling to find purposefulness in his daily life. Throughout his lieder, Wolf declares a key clearly with the left hand of the piano outlining the tonic triad; however, as soon as the vocal line enters,…

There is little argument when it comes to the vast influence and incredible genius of the works of Led Zeppelin. Their 1995 induction bibliography in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame cited them “as influential” during the 1970s as the Beatles during the 1960s. However, when it comes to their classification as a musical genre, there is much debate, not only from fans or their music, but from the band members themselves. In this discourse, I will examine whether or not the band can be labeled as…

She has a dove drawn chariot, encrusted in many rare jewels and slathered in gold which she rode through the sky as her heaven chariot. She has a separate chariot for the sea, drawn by Tritones, a fish tailed merman which she rode to rule the seas. She also adorns herself in many precious jewels and rich, brightly colored clothing garments, and was confident and alluring. To go along with her extravagant style, when she was born she was…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger, better known as Lili Boulanger, was sister to Nadia Boulanger who is regard as one of the most influential pedagogues of the 20th century. Though Lili Boulanger's impact on the musical world maybe not have been as numerous as her sister's, it was not due to lack of talent but time: most of her life she lived with poor health and died at the age of 25 in 1918. In the short time she was alive, she became the first woman to receive the coveted Prix de Rome in 1913 for…

one being the rock n’ roll chord progression of I-VI-IV-V, and the other being the I-IV-V of the blues. The verse is a bluesy style twelve bar form, with Lennon incorporating two unconventional “surprise” chords into the harmony. The first is a tritone between G# and D in the verse’s second measure, and the second is an augmented triad on G# in the second measure of the third phrase in the verse. In the refrain, Lennon contrasts the harmonic openness of the verse with a closed full-circle…