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Apparition de l'église éternelle (Apparition of the eternal church) is a work for organ, written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1932.. The piece is in arch form, beginning in pianissimo (pp) and building up to a fortississimo (fff) climax featuring a C major chord, and then receding back to pianissimo.
Schematic of the transformational situation: "s" and "t" are objects; pitches, pitch-class sets, chords, harmonies, etc.; and "i" is the relationship or "interval" between the two objects. [ 1 ] Transformational theory is a branch of music theory developed by David Lewin in the 1980s, and formally introduced in his 1987 work, Generalized ...
The overall structure of the piece is "a slow introduction, a quick central section, and a return to the initial slower tempo", which echoes the structure of Death and Transfiguration. [4] There are five basic thematic elements in Metamorphosen. First, there are the opening chords.
Richard Strauss 1938. The Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra after Keyboard Pieces by Couperin, Op. 86 (German: Divertimento aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin für kleines Orchester) is an orchestral suite composed by Richard Strauss published in 1942 which consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for ...
For chords, it was common to just play three or two holes instead (sometimes even just one), especially when the instrument is not of the same key. For example, in the blues progression in G (G G G G7 C C G G D7 D7 G G) it is common to use a C diatonic instrument, and notate the following: G chord (G-B-D): 34i (BD) G7 chord (G-B–D-F): 45i (DF).
Tone clusters...on the piano [are] whole scales of tones used as chords, or at least three contiguous tones along a scale being used as a chord. And, at times, if these chords exceed the number of tones that you have fingers on your hand, it may be necessary to play these either with the flat of the hand or sometimes with the full forearm.
The Elektra chord is a "complexly dissonant signature-chord" [1] and motivic elaboration used by composer Richard Strauss to represent the title character of his opera Elektra that is a "bitonal synthesis of E major and C-sharp major" and may be regarded as a polychord related to conventional chords with added thirds, [2] in this case an eleventh chord.
Death and Transfiguration (German: Tod und Verklärung), Op. 24, is a tone poem for orchestra by Richard Strauss. Strauss began composition in the late summer of 1888 and completed the work on 18 November 1889. The work is dedicated to the composer's friend Friedrich Rosch. The music depicts the death of an artist.