MUSI 3480 Lecture Notes - Augmented Sixth Chord, Dichterliebe, Diminished Seventh
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Characteristics of 19th century music: basic elements of the 18th century but creates new affects. Exploring the instruments and their timbers, and breaking away from the regular accompaniment patterns. Storytelling (programmatic effects). : berlioz treatise on orchestration. Increasingly chromatic harmony, applied dominance and sixth chords. Chromatics is blurring and disrupting the regular harmonic progressions: freer treatment of dissonance. Modal mixture. (classical movement: fifth relations) more commonly is relationship by thirds. Beethoven uses it traditionally: modal mixture: goes from c major goes to c minor. Using the key signature of the minor you can move to e-flat major. Cadences in classical are conventional i6 ii6/5 v . Endless melody (wagner): every note in the melody means something. Larger units: beginning a piece with intense material that has a relationship with the rest of the piece and to develop it. Irrational and throwing away formulas: use of ambiguity (form and harmony). Tonality by expression but not necessarily touching on the tonic (dichterliebe, op. 48).
