John Roeder, "Pulse Streams and Problems of Grouping and Metrical Dissonance in Bartók's 'With Drums and Pipes,'" Music Theory Online 7.1 (2001) | << Sect. 2f | Section 2g | Sect. 2h >> | |
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[2.12] Sixth Block (Example II.8) [click here
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No clear grouping structure is evident until m. 50, when another sequence begins.
(Its legs are shown by the brackets in the example.) As in the sequence of mm.
31-37 (Example II.4), the groups in both hands have the same duration but their
boundaries do not coincide, thus creating a displacement dissonance. At the
same time, however, the contour and interval patterns in the hands recall those
of mm. 41-47 (Example II.6). Specifically, as shown below in Example II.9, there
is a textural inversion: the left hand of mm. 50-55 plays the same stepwise
lines, terminal durational accents, and overall contour as the right-hand octaves
of 41-47; and the right hand of 50-55 includes the same vertical major ninths
in quarter notes, embellished with offbeat neighbor notes, that are featured
in the left hand of 41-47.
(Example II.9)
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