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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Seth -- not sure about a Kurth
connection, but check out<br>
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Mark DeVoto - "Alban Berg and Creeping Chromaticism" in the book
'Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives' edited by
David Gable and Robert Morgan, 1991.<br>
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Dave Headlam<br>
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<div>Can anyone direct me to a theoretical discussion of
19th-century chromaticism that (1) addresses the kinds of
creeping, semitonal chord-connections that inspired Kurth’s
conceit of “leading-tone energies,” but which (2) argues that
their apparent purposiveness is less a matter of intrinsic
striving "within" the notes themselves than a function of
retrospective hearing—i.e., that many or even most motions by
semitone can be heard as “directed” or “purposeful” after the
fact?</div>
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<div>Surely someone has argued this; any leads would be greatly
appreciated! (Off-list replies are welcome, of course.)</div>
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<div>With thanks in advance,</div>
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