[Smt-talk] Altered pitch, preserved contour

[Philip Baczewski]

I've used this as a technique in some of my compositions and have described it to 
people as "contour expansion".

Philip Baczewski, D.M.A.  (baczewski at unt.edu)
Director of Academic Computing and User Services
University of North Texas

--On May 20, 2009 11:14:23 AM -0400 Robert Morris <mris at mail.rochester.edu> wrote:

> "contour preservation"
>
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> On Wed, 20 May 2009 A.Ockelford at roehampton.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> 'Intervallic augmentation'?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Adam Ockelford
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>> Subject: [Smt-talk] Altered pitch, preserved contour
>>
>> Can anyone think if there's an accepted term to describe the
>> phenomenon where some musical material is stretched in pitch (making
>> the intervals bigger but preserving the contour). The first thing that
>> comes to mind is 'augmentation', but this is usually only applied to
>> rhythmic alteration.
>>
>> I suspect that, as this phenomenon is not common in the Western canon,
>> it may have escaped categorisation by the early C20th arbiters of
>> music theory. Though I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Richard
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