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162MODERN HARMONYEx. 355.• J: 68.iff.>I(|^ - ig^^j)pi i;il rSTRAUSS, "Elektra?A pianoforte application of "escaped" notes may be seenin Example 168. Some theorists explain these as unresolvedpassing-notes, or appoggiaturas ; but that there is somemore fundamental cormection is undeniable, and this mayperhaps be discovered on the lines of Polytony. When theprincipal chord is sustained, any of the chords built up onone of the other " planes of fifths " derived either from thesharp or the flat side, may be struck above it and left toevaporate. The acceptableness of it will depend largely onthe spacing, thusiA K^Ex.356, s"fm\>\>AItiivyiyW•— g ^ m') \yOf course, such passages are explainable as " pedal-chords,"but even in such cases as Example 324, a and b, these chordsdo not seem to be altogether unrelated, although at presentthey defy all analysis.