A catalogue of fourth spans in Bartok's "Mikrokosmos", Volumes IV and V.

Title: A catalogue of fourth spans in Bartok's "Mikrokosmos", Volumes IV and V.
Identifier: AAI9326794
identifier: 9326794
Creator: O'Leary, Stephen John.
Contributor: Adviser: Philip Lambert
Date: 1993
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Music
Abstract: In this paper, many pieces in Bela Bartok's Mikrokosmos will be shown to contain musical events bounded within the span of a perfect fourth. These spans, usually clearly indicated by phrase and articulation marks, are significant in their versatility; they can occur in diatonic pieces (under the prime form (0135)), octatonic pieces (under the prime form (0235)), pentatonic pieces ((025)), and chromatic pieces ((01235), (01245), and (012345)).;Fourth spans range in nature from conventional melodic phrases to tetrachords clashing in different "keys" ("Diminished Fifth" is the best known example of the latter process). They can also affect both harmonic structures and subtle details in musical writing (as in the B-E{dollar}\sp\sharp{dollar}-G-B cadence at the end of "Major Seconds Broken and Together").;After an introductory chapter, the paper has three chapters discussing diatonic/octatonic spans, pentatonic spans, and chromatic spans. The final chapter, "Conclusions and Conjectures," discusses the Fourth Span's possible origin and its relation to other musical works of Bartok.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

Media: A catalogue of fourth spans in Bartok's "Mikrokosmos", Volumes IV and V.