Modern harmony, its explanation and application . i #k4^^ ^(Orch.)(E minor.) t>--tf r, - ^^ Ex. 306. STRAUSS, The composer who has carried this technique of simul-taneous harmonic streams furthest is Schonberg. In his Fiinf Orchesterstiicke we have several combined streamsof harmony, all founded on unusual chord-formations, and allproceeding more or less independently. His pedal-chords, andpedal-figures too, consist of unusual formations. In fact,Schonberg has done for the empirical system of chord-building aU that Debussy has done for the technique of thenatural harmonic series.
Modern harmony, its explanation and application . i #k4^^ ^(Orch.)(E minor.) t>--tf r, - ^^ Ex. 306. STRAUSS, The composer who has carried this technique of simul-taneous harmonic streams furthest is Schonberg. In his Fiinf Orchesterstiicke we have several combined streamsof harmony, all founded on unusual chord-formations, and allproceeding more or less independently. His pedal-chords, andpedal-figures too, consist of unusual formations. In fact,Schonberg has done for the empirical system of chord-building aU that Debussy has done for the technique of thenatural harmonic series. * See p. 151. 140 MODERN HARMONY Let us pass on to a more interesting question, springingfrom the horizontal listening. This view of harmony is, responsible for many of the newer and mostderived beautiful chords in the modern technique, for mostHori- of these found their way first into the vocabularyby means of passing chords. In Hegars part-song, we find the diminished octave thus introduced, whilstin the Grieg Funeral March, we have one of the rarer formsof the augmented sixth chord. Ex. 307. Vivace. HEGAR, ,
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