The Interaction of the Tonal-Harmonic and the Monodic Principles in the Melodicism of Anton Bruckner (by the Example of the Andante from the Fourth Symphony)
Abstract
The article poses the question regarding the formation of special functions carried out by
the scale degrees within the melodic line. In order to demonstrate these functions a method of
qualification of the stable melodic degrees as the principal, intermediate, first and the second
subsidiary, is used. It was elaborated in previous publications by the author. The object of
research is formed by the primary and subsidiary theme groups from the second movement
of Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. Demonstration of the balance of the stable melodic
scale degrees is connected in the article with a traditional functional analysis of the harmonic
system at the stage of its transition from major-minor to chromatic harmony, as well as the “post-
Schenkerian” methods of harmonic analysis, which presume highlighting pitch lines of various
levels of significance. As a result, there appears a trilaminar analytical model in which Bruckner’s
melody appears both as an independent melody with its melodic functions and a component of
a polyphonic musical texture in which individualized harmonic structures are joined together.
Keywords: mode, stable and unstable scale degrees, monody, melody, major-minor, thirds ratio,
modulation, Anton Bruckner, Heinrich Schenker.
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