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Chromatic fourth: Works & Music

In music theory, a chromatic fourth, or passus duriusculus, is a melody or melodic fragment spanning a perfect fourth with all or almost all chromatic intervals filled in (chromatic line). The quintessential example is in D minor with the tonic and dominant notes as boundaries:

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Chromatic fourth topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Chromatic fourth.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage

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Musical works using the chromatic fourth or passus duriusculus · 21 topics
Overview · 15 topics

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Musical works using the chromatic fourth or passus duriusculus

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How Chromatic fourth connects Entity context

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Important terminology

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Important terminology

bach chromatic bwv minor fourth fugue passus duriusculus subject prelude first music melodic example tonic dominant notes boundaries used term

Chromatic fourth relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Chromatic fourth bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Fourth, Duriusculus and Passus. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Passus
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    • Notes
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    • Passus
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    • Example
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    • Music
    • Notes
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  • perfect fourth
    • Spanning
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    • Duriusculus
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    • Music
    • Notes
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  • j. s. bach, mass in b minor, crucifixus
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    • Fugue
    • Bach
    • Minor
    • Prelude
    • Second
    • Passus
    • Choral
    • Chromatic
    • 16th
    • Century
  • invention no. 9 in f minor, bwv 795
    • Bwv
    • Minor
    • Subject
    • Fugue
    • Bach
    • Prelude
    • Second
    • Passus
    • 16th
    • Century
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  • prelude and fugue in c-sharp minor, bwv 849
    • Prelude
    • Bwv
    • Minor
    • Subject
    • Fugue
    • Bach
    • Second
    • Passus
    • 16th
    • Century
    • Citation
    • Madrigals

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Chromatic fourth, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Chromatic fourth with Musical works using the chromatic fourth or passus duriusculus. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Chromatic fourth — Musical works using the chromatic fourth or passus duriusculus · splits 17 ⟂ 22
Chromatic fourth — Overview · splits 23 ⟂ 16

Map overview Semantic statistics

Chromatic fourth

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples0
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Chromatic fourth to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Chromatic fourth · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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