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Modern harmony, its explanation and application - DMU

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HORIZONTAL METHODS 153Ex. 340.(Final Cadencei ^Modere.^SERIEYX, ^Xes petits Creoles."eyIt is not yet realized sufficiently what an important part isplayed in harmony by the element of pitch. Many beautiful"escaped chords" are possible by merely choosing a pitchposition in which they will easily evaporate. Such applicationmay be both absolute or relative, and the acceptabilityof many passages in modern composers will be frequentlyaccounted for, merely on the score of distance of pitch, contrastof colour, or consequent proportion of sound volume.This feature, however, wiU be dealt with more fully in thenext chapter (see p. 161).

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