The Predominant Six-Four in the Late Music of Richard Strauss

IF 1.6 1区 艺术学 0 MUSIC MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM Pub Date : 2023-02-08 DOI:10.1093/mts/mtac018
Kyle Hutchinson
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This article examines a unique family of six-four sonorities in the works of Richard Strauss. These six-fours typically sound with 6^, 4^, or 2^ (or modal variants thereof) in the bass but occur immediately prior to a cadential dominant, and thus impart a sense of predominant function despite their unstable inversion. In examining how the sixth and fourth behave, I suggest that rather than hearing these chords as consonant inversions of a triad, they can instead be interpreted as accented six-fours; in other words, reading the sixth and fourth as dissonances, whose resolution to a fifth and third is deferred to occur over a subsequent harmony. I suggest that the sense of fragmentation that coalesces through the process of suspension creates a conflict between phenomenological and analytic hearings of this music, which reflects a type of modernism typically overlooked in Strauss’s late music.
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理查德·施特劳斯晚期音乐中占优势的六四
本文考察了理查·施特劳斯作品中一个独特的六四音族。这些六四音通常在低音中发出6^、4^或2^(或其模态变体)的声音,但立即出现在和弦属音之前,因此尽管它们的转位不稳定,但却赋予了一种主导功能的感觉。在研究第六和弦和第四和弦的表现时,我建议不要把这些和弦看作是三和弦的辅音倒转,它们可以被解释为重音的六四和弦;换句话说,将第六和第四乐章读作不协和音,其对第五和第三乐章的消解被推迟到随后的和声中。我认为,通过悬吊过程凝聚起来的碎片感,在这种音乐的现象学和分析性听证之间产生了冲突,这反映了施特劳斯晚期音乐中通常被忽视的一种现代主义。
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期刊介绍: A leading journal in the field and an official publication of the Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum features articles on a wide range of topics in music theory and analysis, including aesthetics, critical theory and hermeneutics, history of theory, post-tonal theory, linear analysis, rhythm, music cognition, and the analysis of popular musics. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary articles revealing intersections with topics in other fields such as ethnomusicology, mathematics, musicology, philosophy, psychology, and performance. For further information about Music Theory Spectrum, please visit the Society for Music Theory homepage.
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