The Role of a Subdominant in the Tune-Harmonic Thinking of R. Schumann

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Tatyana G. Goncharenko

Abstract

This article examines how philosophical and aesthetic concepts of Romanticism were realized on the melodic-harmonic level in the compositions by R. Schumann. The main assumptions of the author are the view of the world as contradiction and the contemplation of a transitional moment. The object of the research is the subdominant of a confl icting essence. The role of a subdominant is examined in the beginnings of themes, at fi nal cadences and at culminations, since the stylistic aspect of these sections of musical composition are the most signifi cant.

Keywords: Romanticism, harmonic, subdominant, contradiction, initial tune, fi nal cadence, culmination, transitional moment

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Goncharenko, T. G. (2011). The Role of a Subdominant in the Tune-Harmonic Thinking of R. Schumann. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 8(1), 75–78. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/465
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Musical Language in its Historic Evolution