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SNAKE SONG NO. 3 |
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Argument. An augmented triad expands (to d'-de) and contracts (to c'-e) upon a constant axis, ga, without changing the pitch of fourths pendent and balanced from the higher level of its base, the latter supporting another pendent fourth at first attached simply later by laps.
In this song A consists of a salient augmented triad, which is followed in B by a sequence of a balanced fourth between two pendent fourths, C closing the strophe with a salient major third (fourth in C2). This general description applies also to the staff notation which registered minuter features of intonation only as indefinite irregularities.
In the phonographic notation the chief of these proves a new type of the displacement of an important note; in this instance the note from which all the segments start and to which A and C return ; the |
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