Mozart's style?!
Question: Mozart's style!?
I would like to know what this means in layman's terms!.
"Mozart is the first composer consistently to use the subdominant with a full sense of its relaxation of long-range harmonic tension"Www@Enter-QA@Com
"Mozart is the first composer consistently to use the subdominant with a full sense of its relaxation of long-range harmonic tension"Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Well, I'd never thought of it, and would love to see this person' examples of what he means!.
The sudominant (forgive me if you already know this) is the chord based on the 4th tone of the scale -- it is symetrically opposed to the dominant!. If you think of the Tonic (the name of the key) as being in the middle, the dominant lies 5 steps above it, the subdominant 5 steps below!.
As to "relaxation of harmonic tension:, I'd have to think about that for a while!.
The dominant, especially when accompanied by its 7th, contains two of the strongest tendency tones in the key -- the 4th degree and the 7th, and they almost always resolve in opposite direction, strongly suggesting a return to the tonic!. It is considered highly dissonant, highly unstable!. It needs to resolve to something!.
The subdominant contains ony the 4th degree, and its tendency is softened by the inclusion in the chord of the 1st degree -- so it has more of a static feel -- less dissonant, less of an urge to resolve!.
Perhaps that is what he means!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The sudominant (forgive me if you already know this) is the chord based on the 4th tone of the scale -- it is symetrically opposed to the dominant!. If you think of the Tonic (the name of the key) as being in the middle, the dominant lies 5 steps above it, the subdominant 5 steps below!.
As to "relaxation of harmonic tension:, I'd have to think about that for a while!.
The dominant, especially when accompanied by its 7th, contains two of the strongest tendency tones in the key -- the 4th degree and the 7th, and they almost always resolve in opposite direction, strongly suggesting a return to the tonic!. It is considered highly dissonant, highly unstable!. It needs to resolve to something!.
The subdominant contains ony the 4th degree, and its tendency is softened by the inclusion in the chord of the 1st degree -- so it has more of a static feel -- less dissonant, less of an urge to resolve!.
Perhaps that is what he means!.Www@Enter-QA@Com