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SNAKE SONG NO. 4 |
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COURSE OF TONE: SNAKE SONG NO. 4 |
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Argument. The axis of a major augmented triad, fg-cd-GA, rises by-successive third tones, the extremes alternately resisting and yielding to the advances.
This is the simplest song of the series, consisting of repetitions of a salient major third, generally redundant, from a reiterated note, every other duplicated and punctuated by a pendent fourth, generally redundant also, and every fourth one followed by another in which the upper instead of the lower note is reiterated. Divided notes (B2 to B4,
![]() The chief formal features of the song are again a displacement of its axis and an attendant shaping of its figure. Conceiving the performance as consisting of four complete strophes introduced by the final segment of a fifth and closed by the initial segment of a sixth, the singer raises the axial note an approximate third tone in passing from each strophe to the next, with one exception (4 to 5) where it remains constant. |
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