Le 29 juin 2017
de 11h00 à 11h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Séance - Leaving – and Regaining – the Shores of Tonality
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Colin Davis
The musical language of Ferruccio Busoni’s mature works (ca. 1907-1924) offers an interesting challenge for the music analyst. While harmony is primarily tertian, the surface level of the music is often complicated by the migration of chromatic lines among voices, misalignments of thematic and motivic ideas with the underlying harmonic progression(s) and harmonic overlap or superimposition of tertian chords. This presentation considers aspects of chord superimposition in relation to voice-leading procedures and harmonic progression in two of Busoni’s orchestral elegies, Berceuse élégiaque (1909) and Gesang vom Reigen der Geister (1915). Linear analysis is incorporated to unravel the dense fabric of voices at the surface level of the music and reveal the underlying harmonic structure and the significant role chord superimpositions play in shaping the overall structure of each work.
