[Smt-talk] Queen's Harmonic Technique

[Leslie Kinton]

For upper-voice pedal points, also Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 1st movement 
Coda.


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Leslie Kinton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Piano Performance
Don Wright Faculty of Music
University of Western Ontario
Anagnoson & Kinton website:  www.pianoduo.com

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> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Nick Braae <braae.nick at gmail.com> asks about 
> upper-voice pedal tones in popular music:
>
>> I wonder whether anybody knows the stylistic origins of this particular 
>> voicing (i.e. pedal note as the top voice)?
>
> It's not an infrequent occurence in an older form of vocal music: opera. 
> In "Marten aller Arten" from Mozart's "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" there 
> are several passages where the soprano holds a high note and the 
> instruments have progressions below her.  Considering the nature of opera 
> writing for sopranos, I assume there are earlier examples.  (If you want 
> an instrumental one, there's the flute/oboe concerto, K. 314 - again, I 
> assume there are earlier examples.)
>
> If you want to stay within pop music, there's the long held note in "I got 
> rhythm" from Gershwin's "Girl Crazy" (1930).  More briefly (but earlier) 
> there's the "Italian Street Song" from "Naughty Marietta (1910) by 
> Herbert.
>
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