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| Dec 24, 2023 at 17:14 | comment | added | Lecifer | Thanks this helps a lot! I like Schenker’s idea of structural levels, but his reduction into the fundamental structure (background) and the other levels is a little strange to me. He has stated that the background requires an opening on the tonic and a return to the tonic, but I don’t understand having to go to the V, or the fundamental line. Both of those would be “middle ground” to me. My favorite quote of his is: “musical form is "an energy transformation, as a transformation of the forces that flow from background to foreground through the levels.", I agree with looking at music this way. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 4:29 | history | answered | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |