Journal Title
Keywords
Readers/Advisors
Journal Title
Term and Year
Publication Date
2013
Book Title
Publication Volume
Publication Issue
Publication Begin
Publication End
Number of pages
Collections
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Abstract
Elegy is a brief composition without overt repetition in its large-scale formal design. The piece is unified instead by the developing variation of a single motive. The variations manifest themselves in two ways. First, the motive undergoes constant intervallic variation (what is heard at the outset as a perfect eleventh appears later as a major ninth, etc.). Second, concurrent with the intervallic alterations, the motive functions in different contexts within individual phrases: the motive may begin or end a phrase, or occur abruptly in the middle of a phrase. The combination of these two processes generates a sense of musical evolution and growth within defined boundaries.
Citation
DOI
Description
Performance by J. W. Turner