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in detail in Figure 3.18. At the end of Event 6, there are lingering pitches which are not
part of any coordinated spectra. It is as if the individual formant strands have become
separated from the group, now with individual attacks. While these descend by over an
octave in register, from 10,642 to 5,188 Hz, the individual strands still occupy a wide
range with similar material, nevertheless, the “bell-tone” effects, as well as the dramatic
crescendi and decrescendi heard earlier in the region require more coordinated attacks,
and thus the lack of coordination heard here is quite noticeable.
Event 7 occupies the same range as the end of Event 6, but returns to the familiar,
more coordinated, attacks and thus highlights the contrast between it at the first event of
Region H (discussed below). This contrast continues through Event 8 which is longer and
has three separate coordinated attacks from 1'47" to 1'53" before trailing off into softer
uncoordinated attacks for the last 7 seconds of the region. This dissolution happens, then,
in stages first the end of Event 6 trails off, with a few lingering pitches, an adumbration,
but hardly extraordinary on their own, especially following the dramatic channel transfer
with which the bulk of Event 6 is occupied. Event 7 then returns to the more
characteristic attacks, as does the beginning of Event 8. Event 8's continuation, however,
is much more extended than the lingering pitches ending Event 6, and begins to push apart
as the beginning of something new–preparation of Region J and Phase 2 of the Transition.
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