The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 1998
- ISBN 9780198165637
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 242x162x19 mm
- Weight 548 g
- Language English
- Illustrations music examples throughout 0
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Short description:
The `Chromatic Fourth' is a musical pattern of six notes moving by step up or down the scale. In this essentially practical study Peter Williams draws on his extensive knowledge of the music of four centuries to investigate and analyse over 200 examples taken from composers ranging from Bach to Bartók, and from Schubert to Shostakovich.
MoreLong description:
Despite its rather forbidding name, the `Chromatic Fourth' is one of the most familiar short themes in virtually all western music over the four hundred years before the middle of our century. It is a sequence of six notes that can be heard in a huge variety of ways, most originally, effectively, and beautifully in the work of the greatest composers, from the madrigalists to Stravinsky, from Byrd to Bartók, with telling examples in the operas of Monteverdi, Mozart, and Wagner, or in the keyboard music of Bull, Bach, and Schubert.
Although the existence of the chromatic fourth has long been recognized, and occasionally mentioned by music historians, this is the first thorough-going attempt to trace its likely origins and its evolution over four hundred years. With over 200 music examples, Peter Williams demonstrates the theme's wonderful variety, and shows that it was used by composers not only as a means of emotional expression, but also as a structural device.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Madrigals, Songs, and Sacred Music
Pavanes and Fantasias
Laments and Operas
J.S. Bach
Handel to Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Pianists and Violinists
Nineteenth-Century Stage Music
Some Later Reminiscences
Postscript
List of References
Index
