Unplayed Galant Melodies, the Ubiquity of the Rarest Interval, and the Heyday of the Major Mode

This article examines in a preliminary fashion the potential connections between the usage of Gjerdingen's (1988, 2007) skeletal galant schemata, the heyday of the major mode during the period 1750-1799 (Albrecht & Huron, 2014; Horn & Huron, 2015), and the rare intervals of the diatonic...

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Main Author: Gilad Rabinovitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2020-07-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://emusicology.org/article/view/6070