Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Perfect fifths occupy a privileged role in much of Aaron Copland’s music. This essay explores the structural significance of ic-5 emphases in the Sonata for Violin and Piano suggested by the pairings of particular pitch centers. In the perspective offered here, pitch centers and other pitch events at the music’s surface parallel the entire work’s tonal organization via a network of perfect-fifth relationships.
Source: Music Theory Online
DOI: 10.30535/mto.17.2.5
Author: Stanley V. Kleppinger
Institution: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1599383448