Modern harmony, its explanation and application . It is this strained aural-vision which causes most com-posers to regard the so-called tonal scale in the light ;x 1 ^^® duodecuple, and inclines them to treat it asMelody. ^^ arpeggio of a chord derived from the view is emphasized by the fact that theboldest of the innovators seem somewhat ashamed of thewhole-tone appearance scalewise, confining its melodicfragments to treatments of the bizarre, outr^, and lyric utterances are seldom more than mere fragments,the connected use of the scale being apparently doomed
Modern harmony, its explanation and application . It is this strained aural-vision which causes most com-posers to regard the so-called tonal scale in the light ;x 1 ^^® duodecuple, and inclines them to treat it asMelody. ^^ arpeggio of a chord derived from the view is emphasized by the fact that theboldest of the innovators seem somewhat ashamed of thewhole-tone appearance scalewise, confining its melodicfragments to treatments of the bizarre, outr^, and lyric utterances are seldom more than mere fragments,the connected use of the scale being apparently doomed, tothe lower regions of pitch. The following melody fromR^bikoff seems much more acceptable when regarded as aseries of mirror-like reflections in sets of three notes : (a) Vivo. MODERN MELODY 169 REBIKOFF,Les Many mourn the apparent exile of true melody fromTnodem music as an irremediable loss. It was only naturalthat composers eyes and ears should have been all turnedtowards the wonderful new fields of harmonic developmentand orchestral colour for the time being; but we have passedlong since the position of Berlioz, whose gaze at melodicouthne was nearly always deflected by the glorious sheenof tone-colour which hung around it. The old style ofmelody is banished probably for ever, but a new harmonicart is already emerging, through which the melodic outlinepromises to shine more gloriously than ever. CHAPTER XIV MODERN RHYTHM The term rhythm is perhaps more promiscuously used than any other term in music. Having regard for the great elemental nature of its general application in of^Term Ordinary parlance, it should stand in music for the regular pulsing of the beats, in the sense in which Berlioz described it as the very life-blood of music. But it is almost as widely accepted in the sense
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