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00100 $C$H$A$P$T$E$R $I$I$I
00200
00300 $S$I$M$P$L$E $S$E$C$O$N$D$A$R$Y $F$U$N$C$T$I$O$N$S
00400
00500
00600 $FUNCTIONAL AND $NON-$FUNCTIONAL $CHROMATICISM
00700
00800 $CHROMATICISM IN TONAL MUSIC GENERALLY FALLS INTO TWO
00900 CATEGORIES WHICH MAY BE LABELED FUNCTIONAL AND NON-FUNCTIONAL. $UNDER
01000 THE FIRST OF THESE HEADINGS COME ALL THOSE ALTERATIONS WHICH
01100 CONTRIBUTE TO EVEN BRIEF MOVEMENT TO A NEW TONAL CENTER. $NON-FUNCTIONAL
01200 CHROMATICISM OCCURS MAINLY AS THE CONVENTIONAL FLATTINGS OF THE MINOR MODE,
01300 OR AS THE SHARPING OF DECORATIVE LOWER NEIGHBORING NOTES
01400 OR APPOGGIATURAS WHICH USUALLY CREATE OR IMPLY AT LEAST MOMENTARY
01500 DISSONANCE. $SOMETIMES IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE NON-FUNCTIONAL
01600 SHARPING WHEN IT OCCURS IN A SCALE LINE THAT PARALLELS SOME
01700 CONVENTIONAL TONAL SCALE. $BUT ALMOST ALWAYS THE CONTEXT OF THE SCALE
01800 WILL CLEARLY SHOW THE ROLE OF THE CHROMATIC NOTE.
01900
02000 $EXAMPLE 27
02100
02200
02300
02400 $OCCASIONALLY TH¬ FIFTH OF A CHORD WILL RAISED, PRODUCING
02500 AN AUGMENTED TRIAD. $THIS CHROMATICISM IS USUALLY NON-FUNCTIONAL UNLESS
02600 THE FOLLOWING MUSIC MAKES THE AUGMENTED TRIAD WORK AS A SUBSTITUTE DOMINANT
02700 TO SOME NEW TONIC. $MOST OFTEN THE SHARPED NOTE OF AN AUGMENTED TRIAD
02800 APPEARS AS A KIND OF "FROZEN" CHROMATIC PASSING OR NEIGHBORING NOTE.*
02900
03000 $EXAMPLE 28. $MOZART, $SONATA IN $F, $K.533
03100
03200
03300
03400 $THE NON-FUNCTIONAL ALTERATIONS DO NOT INFLUENCE EITHER THE TONALITY
03500 OR THE HARMONIC FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE TONALITY. $BUT IN THE SENSE THAT
03600 ENTIRE CHORDS CAN SOMETIMES HAVE PRIMARILY CONTRAPUNTAL (OR DECORATIVE)
03700 SIGNIFICANCE, AS DISCUSSED EARLIER, THE TWO CATEGORIES OF CHROMATICISM
03800 OVERLAP TO A CERTAIN EXTENT.
03900
04000 --------------------
04100
04200 $FUNCTIONAL CHROMATICISM MAY OCCUR ON EITHER CHORD OR NON-CHORD
04300 TONES AND NECESSARILY DEFINES A NEW TONAL AREA. $EXAMPLES OF FUNCTIONAL
04400 CHROMATICISM APPEARING AS NON-CHORD TONES FOLLOW.
04500
04600 $A SINGLE CHORD MAY SOMETIMES BE CAUSED TO SOUND LIKE A NEW
04700 TONIC (OR OTHER FUNCTION WITHIN A NEW TONIC) BY MEANS OF THE SCALAR
04800 USE OF FUNCTIONAL CHROMATICISM. $THERE NEED NOT BE ANY "PROGRESSION" IN
04900 THE NEW TONIC WHATSOEVER.
05000
05100 $EXAMPLE 29
05200
05300
05400
05500 $IN THE NEXT EXAMPLE THE FEELING OF THE DOMINANT OF $F
05600 IS CLEAR UNTIL THE LAST SECOND.
05700
05800 $EXAMPLE 30. $MOZART, $SONATA IN A, $K.300D(310)
05900
06000
06100
06200 $THE FIRST $F#, AS THE LOWER NEIGHBOR TO $G IS NON-FUNCTIONALLLY
06300 ALTERED; BUT WHEN $F# APPEARS AS PART OF A DESCENDING SCALE, THEN $FN LOSES
06400 ITS TONIC POTENTIAL AND THE ENHARMONIC SPELLING OF THE $C7 CHORD BECOMES
06500 JUSTIFIED EVEN BEFORE THE $B CHORD IS HEARD. $BY ALTERING THIS SCALE NOTE,
06600 $MOZART CAUSES $V OF $F TO TAKE ON NEW MEANING AS AN AUGMENTED SIXTH
06700 CHORD IN E. $THE DOMINANT FUNCTION OF THE FINAL $B IS CLEAR.
06800
06900 $NO MATTER HOW BRIEF THE OCCURRENCE OF FUNCTIONAL CHROMATICISM,
07000 THE IMPLICATION IS THAT A NEW TONIC IS BEING APPROACHED. $WHEN THIS
07100 OCCURS ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE, ESTABLISHING ONE OF THE IMPORTANT
07200 SECTIONS OF A PIECE, WE SAY THAT MODULATION HAS TAKEN PLACE; BUT
07300 WHEN THIS KIND OF CHROMATICISM LEADS ONLY TO A TEMPORARY TONIC,
07400 SERVING TO STRENGTHEN IT IN RELATION TO THE MAIN TONIC, WE SAY THAT
07500 TONICIZATION HAS TAKEN PLACE. $TONICIZATION COVERS A VERY WIDE
07600 RANGE OF SITUATIONS. $IT IS BY THIS PROCESS THAT GREAT HARMONIC VARIETY
07700 WITHIN GENERAL TONAL UNITY IS POSSIBLE. $IT MUST BE EMPHASIZED, HOWEVER,
07800 THAT NO DISTINCTIONS CONCERNING TONICIZATION (SINCE THE PROBLEM OF HARMONY
07900 VERSUS COUNTERPOINT IS OFTEN INVOLVED) CAN EVER BE TAKEN AS STRICT RULES.
08000 $IN THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES THE FREQUENT CONFLICT BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL AND
08100 NON-FUNCTIONAL CHROMATICISM IS PRESENTED. $IN THESE CASES THE END RESULT IS TO
08200 STRENGTHEN THE DOMINANT AND YET MAINTAIN ITS SUPPORTING ROLE IN
08300 RELATION TO THE TONIC. $THE SAME PROCESS MAY ALSO APPEAR WITH REGARD
08400 TO THE CHORDS ON OTHER SCALE DEGREES.
08500
08600
08700 $EXAMPLE 31. $HAYDN, $SONATA IN $E, ($EDITION $PETERS, #40)
08800
08900
09000
09100 $HERE THE $A# IN THE BASS IS CHROMATIC PASSING TONE BETWEEN
09200 THE 4TH AND 5TH DETREES OF $E. $THE CONFLICT WITH THE $AN ABOVE IT
09300 INTENSIFIES THE NON-FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE ALTERATION. $SITUATIONS
09400 SUCH AS THIS OCCUR FREQUENTLY IN $HAYDN, AND ESPECAILLY IN $C. $P. $E.
09500 $BACH.
09600
09700 $EXAMPLE 32. $MOZART, $SONATA IN $EB, $K.189G(282)
09800
09900
10000
10100
10200 $IN THE LAST TWO MEASURES ABOVE, THE BASS LINE CERTAINLY
10300 TONICIZES $F (NOTE THE MELODIC AND HARMONIC TRITONE, $BB-$E). $HOWEVER,
10400 THE CONFLICT WITH THE AUXILIARY $EB OF THE UPPER PART MINIMIZES THE
10500 FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE BASS. $THEN, TOO, THE DIRECT MOVEMENT OF $EN
10600 TO $F MIGHT BE TAKEN AS AN APPOGGIATURA FROM A WEAK TO A STRONG
10700 BEAT. $THE EARLIER $EN, EVEN THOUGH APPEARING IN A CHROMATIC PASSING
10800 MOVEMENT, ALSO HAS AN APPRECIABLE TONICIZING FUNCTION BECAUSE OF THE
10900 IMPLIED DIMINISHED 7TH CHORD ($VS OF $F) AT THAT POINT. $IN THIS KIND
11000 OF EXAMPLE THE SPECIFIC ANALYTICAL CONCLUSIONS WILL DEPEND ON THE DEGREE OF
11100 THE INDIVIDUAL'S CONCERN WITH DETAIL AND WITH THE RHYTHMIC AND MELODIC
11200 FACTORS WHICH ARE BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK.
11300
11400 $THE SIMPLEST FORM OF TONICIZATION OCCURS WHEN A SINGLE NOTE
11500 OF A CHORD OR LINE IS ALTERED SO AS TO PLAY THE PART OF EITHER THE
11600 LEADING TONE OR 4TH DEGREE OF A NEW KEY. $IT IS POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, TO
11700 TONICIZE A TONE WITHOUT ANY CHROMATIC ALTERATION WHATEVER; BUT USUALLY
11800 THIS IS NOT VERY DEFINITIVE UNLESS CONSIDERABLE REPETITION OF A
11900 MOTIF TAKES PLACE AND THE IMPLICATION OF CHROMATIC CHANGE IS FELT.
12000
12100 $EXAMPLE 33
12200
12300
12400
12500 $TONICIZATION AND $PIVOT $CHORDS
12600
12700 $TONICIZED FUNCTIONS WILL BE INDICATED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER:
12800
12900 $EXAMPLE 34. $BACH, $CHORALE 106
13000
13100
13200
13300
13400
13500 $FIGURE 33A
13600
13700
13800
13900
14000 $THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN $FIGURE 33A WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH FOR THE
14100 PRESENT, SINCE IT WILL SHOW ONLY MODULATION; I.E., THE LARGEST
14200 RELATIONSHIPS OF BASIC TONICS. $THE ENCLOSED, MIDDLE LEVEL SHOWS THE
14300 RELATIONSHIPS OF THE TEMPORARY TONICS, AND THE LOWEST LEVEL THE
14400 SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF EACH CHORD.
14500
14550
14600 $PIVOT $CHORDS
14700
14800 $IN MOST CASES OF TONICIZATION ONE OR MORE PIVOT CHORDS WILL BE
14900 PRESENT. $A PIVOT CHORD WILL FUNCTION SIMULTANEOUSLY IN BOTH THE
15000 OLD AND NEW TONICS. $IN $EXAMPLE 34, THE CHORD ON THE FIRST
15100 BEAT OF BAR 2 FUNCTIONS BOTH AS $I OF $I AND $I$V OF $V. $THIS MAY BE
15200 REPRESENTED:
15300
15400 $FIGURE 34B
15500
15600
15700
15800 $THE HORIZONTAL BRACKET AND THE "EQUALS" SIGN (=) INDICATE
15900 THAT BOTH SETS OF NUMERALS REPRESENT TO THE SAME CHORD. $IT IS POSSIBLE
16000 THAT A WHLE GROUP OF CHORDS MAY FUNCTION, RETROSPECTIVELY, IN TWO
16100 DIFFERENT KEYS. $HOWEVER, GENERALLY IT IS MOST PRACTICAL TO BE
16200 CONCERNED ONLY WITH THE LAST CHORD BEFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF
16300 FUNCTIONAL CHROMATICISM (SEE PAGE ZZZ ALSO).
16400
16500 $OFTEN A TONICIZATION WILL BE STARTED BY AN ALTERED PASSING TONE
16600 (AS IN THE $MOZART EXAMPLE, PAGE ZZZ). $IN SUCH CASES, EITHER THE
16700 PRECEDING HARMONY OR THE ONE UNDER THE PASSING TONE MAY FORM THE
16800 PIVOT CHORD.
16900
17000 $EXAMPLE 35. $BACH, $CHORALE 50 (SECOND PHRASE)
17100
17200
17300
17400
17500
17600 $FIGURE 35
17700
17800
17900
18000
18100 $THE FIRST ANALYSIS IS PREFERRED, SINCE IT OFFERS MORE COMMON
18200 PROGRESSIONS IN BOTH OF THE MIDDLE GROUND TONICS.
18300
18400 $FREQUENTLY A FLATTED 7TH WILL APPEAR WITH A TONIC THAT HAS
18500 JUST BEEN PRECEDED BY ITS DOMINANT. $EVEN THOUGH THE NEW SCALE NOTE
18600 IS PRESENT IN THE TONIC ITSELF, THAT CHORD WILL BE THE PIVOT CHORD
18700 BECAUSE IT IS AT ONCE A NEW DOMINANT AND THE CLEAR GOAL OF THE
18800 PRECEDING DOMINANT. $THE $IB7* MAY BE INDICATED AS $IS, SO AS TO SHOW
18900 THAT THE CHORD IS SUBSTITUTING FOR A TRUE TONIC EFFECT.
19000
19100 $EXAMPLE 36. $BACH, $CHORALE 6
19200
19300
19400
19500
19600 $FIGURE 36A
19700
19800
19900
20000
20100 $IB7 IS USUALLY A PIVOT TO A TONIC ON $I$V, HENCE $IS=$V7 OF $I$V.
20200 $SINCE $V$I$IB7 IS OFTEN A SUBSTITUTE FOR $V7, THEN IT FOLLOWS THAT A
20300 DIMINISHED CHORD CAN, UNDER SOME CIRCUMSTANCES, SERVE AS $IS EVEN THOUGH
20400 THE TONIC NOTE ITSELF IS NOT PRESENT. $THE NEXT EXAMPLE SHOWS HOW A SIMPLE
20500 $V-$I-$IV PROGRESSION MIGHT BE TRANSFORMED SO THAT AND DIMINISHED CHORD
20600 TAKES ON THE ROLE OF A SUBSTITUTE TONIC.
20700
20800 $EXAMPLE 37
20900
21000 ***************************⊂ NEW EXAMPLE ***********************
21100
21200
21300
21400
21500 $ALSO, IN THE NEXT EXAMPLE, THE $DB OF THE BASS MIGHT HAVE BEEN REPLACED
21600 BY $C WITHOUT ALTERING THE BASIC FUNCTIONS OF THE HARMONIES.
21700
21800 $EXAMPLE 38
21900
22000
22100
22200
22300 $FIGURE 38
22400
22500
22600
22700 $TONICIZATION MAY OCCUR WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF A PIVOT CHORD.
22800 $A DIRECT CHROMATIC RELATIONSHIP, SUCH AS THE $A TO $A# OF THE FOLLOWING
22900 EXAMPLE, USUALLY RULES OUT ANY PIVOTAL FUNCTION.
23000
23100 $EXAMPLE 39. $BACH, $CHORALE 85
23200
23300
23400
23500
23600
23700
23800 $FIGURE 39
23900 $THE VERTICAL WAVY
24000 LINE ( ) WILL INDICATE
24100 THE ABSENCE OF A
24200 PIVOT CHORD.
24300
24400
24500
24600 $IN THE ABOVE EXAMPLE AND FIGURE IS A PARTICULARLY CLEAR CASE
24700 OF A CHORD (IN PARENTHESES) WHICH APPEARS AS THE RESULT OF STEPWISE
24800 MOTION AND HAS ONLY SMALL FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. $THE SKIP IN
24900 THE SOPRANO FROM THE $E UP TO THE $B CAUSES THE ENTIRE MEASURE TO
25000 BE HEARD AS A SINGLE FUNCTION.
25100
25200 $IN THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE, THE IDEAS OF TONICIZATION AND MERE
25300 NON-FUNCTIONAL ALTERATION OF PRIMARY FUNCTION TEND TO MERGE.
25400
25500 $EXAMPLE 40
25600
25700
25800
25900
26000 $THE $BB AND $F# MAY BE CALLED EITHER CHROMATIC PASSING TONES
26100 OR TONES WHICH CHANGE THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CHORDS IN QUESTION. $IN THE
26200 FIRST INSTANCE OUR ANALYSIS WOULD GIVE:
26300
26400 $FIGURE 40A
26500
26600
26700
26800
26900 $THE SECOND POINT OF VIEW GIVES:
27000
27100 $FIGURE 40B
27200
27300
27400
27500
27600 $NEITHER OF THESE RESULTS IS COMPLETELY SATISFACTORY. $A MIXTURE
27700 OF THE TWO MIGHT BE GIVEN, BECAUSE THE 4TH OF A SCALE SEEMS A WEAKER
27800 TONIC-DETERMINING FACTOR THAN THE LEADING TONE AND THE LAST
27900 CHORD OF A PHRASE USUALLY TAKES ON MORE IMPORTANCE THAN THE MIDDLE CHORDS.
28000 $THUS:
28100
28200 $FIGURE 40C
28300
28400
28500
28600
28700
28800 $ONE SHOULD NOT BE OVERLY CONCERNED WITH SUCH DETAILS UNLESS
28900 THE MUSIC INDICATES THAT THE COMPOSER WAS INTENT ON DIRECTING THE
29000 LISTENER'S ATTENTION TO THEM. $IN MOST CASES THE ACTUAL DURATION OF
29100 AN ALTERATION AND ITS POSITION IN THE PHRASE MIGHT BE GOOD BASES
29200 FOR DECISIONS. $FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE PROPER SCALE DEGREE WERE INVOLVED,
29300 AN ALTERED NOTE OF A CHORD TWICE AS LONG AS ITS PRECEDING UNALTERED
29400 FORM WOULD TEND TO CHANGE THE CHORD'S FUNCTION.
29500
29600 ---------------------------
29700
29800
29900 $EXERCISES FOR $CHAPTER $I$I$I
30000
30100 $ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING WORKS IN THE MANNER DEMONSTRATED
30200 BY $FIGURES ZZZ-ZZZ.
30300
30400 $FROM THE 371 $CHORALES OF $BACH:
30500
30600 1. $CHORALE 18
30700 2. $CHORALE 29
30800 3. $CHORALE 131
30900 4. $CHORALE 181
31000
31100 5. $BACH, $TWO-$PART $INVENTION #1, IN $C, FIRST 9 BARS
31200 AND FIRST NOTE OF BAR 10.
31300 6. $BACH, $TWO-$PART $INVENTION #10, IN $G, COMPLETE WORK.
31400 7. $BACH, $TWO-$PART $INVENTION #14, IN $BB, FIRST 7 BARS.
31500 AND LAST 9 BARS.
31600 8. $CHOPIN, $PRELUDE IN $G, $OP.28 #3, COMPLETE WORK.