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Thanks for the sequence suggestions, everybody.<div><br></div><div>Jay Hook also noted two other very clear ascending minor-third sequences:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. Grieg, first Norwegian Dance, middle section.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Tchaikovsky, Symphony 4, movement 2, m. 110</div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly, in almost all of the sequences mentioned so far, the voice-leading is (mostly) parallel and ascending. This suggests to me that composers typically think of the ascending minor-third sequence in harmonic rather than contrapuntal terms -- at least, they don't seem to be interested in exploiting the potential for *descending* voice leading.</div><div><br></div><div>A cool example of the "Waldstein" sequence C-G6-Bb-F6 is "Hey Joe" (which I know only in the Hendrix version: C-G-D-A-E). Here the descending stepwise voice leading is very clear, both in the melody and the upper guitar strings, and perhaps contributes to the mournful "sinking" feeling ("I'm going down ..."). The effective-but-unusual ascending fifths harmonies were always a bit of a mystery to me, but they perhaps make more sense if you think in terms of voice leading.</div><div><br></div><div>DT</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Dmitri Tymoczko</div><div>Associate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Professor of Music</div><div>310 Woolworth Center</div><div>Princeton, NJ 08544-1007</div><div>(609) 258-4255 (ph), (609) 258-6793 (fax)</div><div><a href="http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri">http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>