Schenker Correspondence Project

Diary entry by Schenker, dated Wednesday September 25, 1907

Mittw. 25.9. „Quarte“ als „Grenzintervall“¹ endlich erforscht!

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2005.

Diary entry by Schenker, dated Wednesday September 25, 1907

Wednesday September 25 : „Fourth“ as “boundary inverval”¹ finally investigated!

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: diary entry

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Cf. Kontrapunkt I, Part I, chapter 2, § 13 “Der Quart” (pp.111–114 of finished German edn, pp. 79–81 of the English trans.), viz. “Since the fourth, as inversion of the fifth, leads to the same tone as the original itself ... it, too, is to be regarded only as a boundary interval of the harmonic triad ...”

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP II = Kontrapunkt:] 4th as boundary interval.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ NMTP II = Kontrapunkt:] 4th as boundary interval.
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2005.
Schenker, Heinrich; Cotta, J. G.; NMTP; vol. II; Kontrapunkt; Counterpoint; 4th; Grenzintervall; boundary interval
Diary entry by Schenker, dated September 25, 1907
diary entry
academic; musicology; music theory
OJ 1/5, p.48
1907-09-25
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Schenker diary
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Schenker, Heinrich (1907-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Image: University of California, Riverside; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
1907