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Prolongation

In music theory, prolongation is the process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is considered to govern spans of music when not physically sounding. It is a central principle in the music-analytic methodology of Schenkerian analysis, conceived by Austrian theorist Heinrich Schenker. The English term usually translates…

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Prolongation in Schenkerian theory

Voice-leadingAdele T. KatzJ.S. BachLittle Prelude in D minorUrsatz
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Conditions for prolongation

Post-tonalPaul HindemithIgor StravinskyLisztWagner
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Music theoryTonal musicPitchIntervalConsonant triad
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Prolongational techniques

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related to Conditions for prolongation · 16
Prolongation → Developments, Felix Salzer, He, His, Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Straus, Liszt, Morgan, Music, Paul Hindemith, Robert Morgan, Schenker, Schenkerian, Scriabin, These, Wagner
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Prolongation → Adele, American, Auskomponierung, He, Heinrich Schenker, Katz, Schenker, Schenkerian, Schenker’s, The, The German, Urbegriffe, Urgesetze, Viennese
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Prolongation → In Schenkerian, Most, Prolongational, Schenkerian, When
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Prolongation → cognitive act of the listener, hierarchical differentiation of pitches within a passage of tonal music, possibility in other post-tonal music, process in tonal music through which a pitch

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Prolongationrelated to Conditions for prolongationSchenker0.60section
Prolongationrelated to Conditions for prolongationFelix Salzer0.60section
Prolongationrelated to Conditions for prolongationPaul Hindemith0.60section

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