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The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)

The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music By Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)

The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music by Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)

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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 Bartok, and from Schubert to Shostakovich.

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The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music by Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)

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 Bartok, 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 ; 1. Madrigals, Songs, and Sacred Music ; 2. Pavanes and Fantasias ; 3. Laments and Operas ; 4. J.S. Bach ; 5. Handel to Haydn ; 6. Mozart ; 7. Beethoven ; 8. Pianists and Violinists ; 9. Nineteenth-Century Stage Music ; 10. Some Later Reminiscences ; Postscript ; List of References ; Index

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NPB9780198165637
9780198165637
0198165633
The Chromatic Fourth During Four Centuries of Music by Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)
Peter Williams (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA John Bird Professor of Music, University of Wales, Cardiff)
Oxford Monographs on Music
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
1998-03-12
272
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