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Jumping to Conclusions: The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant, Polyphony, and Recitative (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Jumping to Conclusions: The Falling-Third Cadences in Chant, Polyphony, and Recitative (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This book concerns the cadences which reach their conclusion by
jumping from scale degree 3 down to 1 or to 1-7-1. The
chronological history commences in Gregorian Chant, where the
falling third is often preceded by scale degree 4, forming the
striking figure 4-3-1. The cadences move, along with the borrowed
chant melodies, into the polyphony of the late 14th, 15th and 16th
centuries. Here, melodic figures with the shape of 4-3-1, but on
any scale degree, become a significant element of style. At cadence
the unbroken melodic progression 4-3-1-7-1 may lie entirely in the
upper voice, or 4-3-1 may occur in a lower voice followed by 7-1 in
the upper. The general effect of the falling third changes as the
surrounding musical elements change and as polyphony itself evolves
through time. The cadences are reborn in recitative, first in an
unbroken form with 4-3-1-7-1 in the voice, later in a broken form
with 4-3-1 in the voice, 7-1 in the instrumental continuo part.
Many evolving rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, and other elements are
important in the cadences, but two are especially significant, for
they lead to difficult problems for later performers. These concern
(1) the structure in which the accompaniment's V chord is notated
directly below the voice's first or single scale degree 1, and (2)
the possibility of an appoggiatura on scale degree 2 between the
two notes of the falling third. The book suggests some new and
unexpected solutions to both these problems and concludes with a
brief history of the 4-3-1 figure. The book includes many musical
examples by composers such as Dunstable, Dufay, Josquin,
Palestrina, A. Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Handel, Telemann, Haydn,
Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Rossini.
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