JAVS Summer 2000

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NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS AND HIS VIOLA SONATAS

thirteenth to a major interval. This latter alteration foreshadows the type of synthetic chord with which theme II begins. Example two reproduces the first four measures of theme II along with a chordal reduction. As indicated, this excerpt also begins with a chordal statement on A, which alters the original hexachordal source to include a major rather than minor thirteenth, and also adds a perfect fifth and perfect eleventh. The following measure presents a transposition of this octochord up a minor third (on C). The remaining two measures feature pentachordal subsets of these sonorities in alternating transpositional statements on A and C. Notice that the chordal reductions in exam ples one and two reveal an orthography that consistently keeps intact intervalic relationships between chord members and their chordal roots.

Example 2.

chordal reduction

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