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Aspects of Idiomatic Harmony in the Harpsichord Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

Most of Domenico Scarlatti's harmonic progressions are quite orthodox when considered abstractly or free of their positioning in the score. The harmonic movement is given interest by subtle alterations in time; for example, (1) simultaneous upper and lower voices of different lengths, when repeated several times, change their relationship with each other; (2) one voice may be simply delayed so that it lags behind the other voice, thus combining to produce irregular harmonic sound on many succeeding beats; (3) the combination of two or more chords appearing on one beat is similar to number (2) but does not necessarily occur more than once.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663567
Date06 1900
CreatorsWilliams, Wiley John
ContributorsOttman, Robert W., Grubb, Margaret M.
PublisherNorth Texas State College
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 42 leaves: music, Text
RightsPublic, Williams, Wiley John, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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