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Nathaniel Mitchell deposited The Volta: A Galant Gesture of Culmination in the group Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

This article presents an overview of a new pre-cadential schema in the galant style: the Volta. The Volta is a two-part schema featuring a prominent chromatic reversal: stage one charges up the dominant with a ♯4–5 melodic string, while stage two releases to the tonic using a ♮4–3 string. The schema sheds light on many aspects of galant music-m…[Read more]
Nathaniel Mitchell deposited The Volta: A Galant Gesture of Culmination on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

This article presents an overview of a new pre-cadential schema in the galant style: the Volta. The Volta is a two-part schema featuring a prominent chromatic reversal: stage one charges up the dominant with a ♯4–5 melodic string, while stage two releases to the tonic using a ♮4–3 string. The schema sheds light on many aspects of galant music-m…[Read more]

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