Dualism in a Rachmaninoff Prelude
Harmonically, music of the classical period was based on tonic-dominant polarity. The subdominant served only a subsidiary role, introducing the
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Schenkerian Analysis
Heinrich Schenker’s Musical Grammar
To say that music is a language is not just a metaphor. Music has syntactical structures very akin to those
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The Elided Second Degree
Many years ago I performed Rachmaninoff’s Etude-Tableau op. 39/5, and it remains one of my favorite works by the composer.
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