Modern harmony, its explanation and application . There is a strong grip of tonality felt throughout thisforceful composition, just as there is, only in another way, inScriabines tone-poem Prometheus. It wiU be seen thatthe latter composers adopted tonality chord is responsibleno less for the opening (Example 397a) than for the finalchords of this remarkable work (Example 3976). 188 ,(a) Lento. MODERN HARMONY ^^ 4 Horns ^ i ^^^ %. ^ 1^ -fe ^z M -fe ^ ^: 111.^ w: m ^^~^.^: 1 H:. With the Impressionists, form must be accepted as coher-Mono- G^ce and
Modern harmony, its explanation and application . There is a strong grip of tonality felt throughout thisforceful composition, just as there is, only in another way, inScriabines tone-poem Prometheus. It wiU be seen thatthe latter composers adopted tonality chord is responsibleno less for the opening (Example 397a) than for the finalchords of this remarkable work (Example 3976). 188 ,(a) Lento. MODERN HARMONY ^^ 4 Horns ^ i ^^^ %. ^ 1^ -fe ^z M -fe ^ ^: 111.^ w: m ^^~^.^: 1 H:. With the Impressionists, form must be accepted as coher-Mono- G^ce and justification, and in this direction Debussysthematic LApr^s-midi dun Fauue is as satisfying andFormi. convincing as that other beautiful idyll, the Lohen-grin Prelude. MODERN FORM 189 In England, the adoption of that single art-form, the Phantasie, for instrumental trio or quartet, owes much ofits cultivation to that generous art-patron, Mr. W. W. ground has also been broken by Dr. Walford Davies inhis Six Pastorals for a string quartet, a vocal solo-quartetand pianoforte, and also in the Peter Pan Suite for stringquartet. The recent wonderful discoveries in harmonic researchhave led to the rise of a distinct form, which may be called a The harmonic study. A certain mode or scale isHarmonic taken, or more often a characteristic chord, from Study- which one or more scales can be evolved. Thiscombination is exploited exclusively, in a piece which, heldtogether by the new and strange tonality of the chord
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