[Smt-talk] Fwd: First Species Question

[donnadoyle]

Perhaps this illusion is created by the role of the solo as the melody  
(top line), no matter what its register. Schenker addressed this  
issue, didn't he?

Donna Doyle

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On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:15 AM, "Dunsby, Jonathan" <jdunsby at esm.rochester.edu 
 > wrote:

> ...fifths are (and sound like) fifths, no matter what registers...
>> Best regards,
>> Donna Doyle
>>
>> Aaron Copland School of Music
>> Queens College
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>>
>> Well you say that, but almost as another thread I'm wondering just  
>> how and where, from a theory-building point of view, the illusion  
>> of 'part' integrity kicks in or doesn't? When e.g. a voice actually  
>> dips under the piano bass line in a 19C Lied, how come we don't  
>> hear it as the 'bass' (shades of Dichterliebe No. 2, of course,  
>> beloved of us theorists, but such happens all over Western art  
>> music, here and there)? My teacher always said "because that's what  
>> Messiaen taught us". But is there a history-of-theory etiology to  
>> this issue or perhaps non-issue? (Obviously, fifths with the 'bass'  
>> and fifths entailing only inner parts are not, in general, the same  
>> thing....)
>>
>> Jonathan
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>> Eastman School of Music
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