Schumann: Melody
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- Schumann: Melody
- No. 1
- Thematic feature of rising minor 6th leap
- Followed by stepwise decent
- Bars 1-2 and elsewhere
- Followed by stepwise decent
- Bass melody borrows features of the opening bars
- Bars 9-12
- Melodic sequence
- Bars 9-12
- Thematic feature of rising minor 6th leap
- No.3
- Almost entirely conjunct
- Leaps onto accented notes such as the appoggiaturas in bar 2 and the sforzando dominant seventh in bar 15
- Thematic use of the figure of four conjunct semiquavers
- Ascending or descending
- Appears as a sequence in bar 2
- Unusual decent of minor 7th
- Bar 9
- Generated by the 8ve transposition of the semiquaver phrase in the second half of the bar
- High position of Gmaj chord in bar 9 is close to the hand position of the previous bar
- Overall shape of the melody from bar 9 is a descent
- Emphasised by accents at bars 9 and 11 and culminating with the Neapolitan chord at bar 13 (lowest melody note of piece)
- Almost entirely conjunct
- No.11
- Mostly diatonic apart from chromaticism in the 2nd bar of A section
- Modified version of opening melody in bass
- Bars 5-8 below a new phrase in the topmost melody.
- B section has a very disjunct bass melody
- Bar 9
- 8ve leaps - treated in sequence
- Second half of C section
- Bars 25-28
- 2 bar phrase with semitone movement which spans a diminished 4th and is then treated in sequence
- General
- Rudolf Reti - ''The Thematic Process in Music'
- Melodies of Kinderscenen are derives from the first piece in set
- Rising 6th followed by a group of 4 descending conjunct notes can be traced through the various pieces
- In No.3, the crotchet B natural has been detached from the 4 descending notes
- Space filled with a similarly-shaped phrase one note higher
- No. 11 also begins on B
- 4 note descent is immediately heard in the alto on the principle beats
- Filled in with chromatic notes
- Reappears conspicuously at its original pitch in the second phrase of the melody
- 4 note descent is immediately heard in the alto on the principle beats
- Melodies of Kinderscenen are derives from the first piece in set
- Rudolf Reti - ''The Thematic Process in Music'
- No. 1
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