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- From: maverick@fir.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: Modulations
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:13:07 GMT
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- In article <1k3trm$m5t@agate.berkeley.edu>, maverick@mahogany.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick) writes:
- |>
- |> [recommends the Viennese classics as source of modulations]
-
- For example, in the "Jupiter" Symphony, the return to the tonic at
- the end of the development section of the last movement is from the
- dominant of E minor to C. Boiled down to four parts, here's what he
- does, approximately one (snappy 2/2) measure per column:
-
- C -- -- B C
- F# -- -- -- F -- E
- D# -- -- -- D -- C
- B A# A Ab G -- C
- ^note funky parallel "5ths"
-
- Pretty slick. Another great Mozart example, too complex to boil down
- this way, is from the C Major Quintet K. 515. In the exposition,
- before he has left C major, there's a phrase of several bars
- (beginning C-A | G-F F F F | F in the first violin) which starts and
- ends in C, with a middle in D-flat -- with a longer version in the
- recapitulation getting as far as C# minor.
-
- Vance
-