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JAKWAINA 193
the shift, but we miss the lusty adiatonic d'e' of A1. The triads of £ span approximate fifths in C2 and consist of two major thirds spanning a minor sixth in
![]() bination (compare Snake Songs Nos. 2 and 3) as " sehr lehrreich fur die Theorie der Musik" (Tonempfindungen, p. 352) because consisting wholly of intervals
![]() tempered scale, and explains the anomaly by an unconscious memory of the diminished and hence dissonant fourth that in true intonation combines with a major third to make a minor sixth. The disagreeable effect of the combination may also be explained diatonically, according to the diagram, as the union of parts of two triads of the minor mode, C-E-GA, demanding resolution into one or other; either C becoming B and giving the dominant triad, or GA becoming A and giving the tonic. In so far as this latter motive enters, the freedom with which the combination is executed in the present songs argues against a diatonic sense in the singers.
It is a constant temptation to neglect the anomalies of this music. Yet they contain its secret, as zero and infinity values that of a function. |
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