Cadentia duriuscula

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to Christoph Bernhard (1628–1692) , the Cadentia duriuscula ( Latin , " somewhat hard cadence ") is a musical figure that he - like Passus duriusculus and Saltus duriusculus - assigns to the " stylus communis " . Accordingly, the special form of dissonance treatment that is at issue here was common in church and table music as well as in sonatas of the 17th century.

According to Bernhard, there are "Cadentiae duriusculae [...] which assume somewhat strange dissonances before the two final notes". His examples show a dissonant fourth above the fourth from last bass note and an unprepared seventh above the third from last bass note :

\ version "2.14.2" \ header {tagline = ## f} melody = \ relative c '{% \ override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = ## f \ key f \ major \ once \ override Staff.TimeSignature.style = # 'single-digit \ time 3/4 \ tempo 4 = 132 e4 ef ~ | f e2 | d2. \ bar "||" \ set Staff.explicitKeySignatureVisibility = # all-invisible \ override Staff.KeySignature.break-visibility = # all-invisible \ key c \ major \ time 4/4 d'2 d4 e8 f | e d4. c2 \ bar "||" \ once \ override Staff.TimeSignature.style = # 'single-digit \ time 3/4 d4 cb | c b2 | a2. \ bar "||" } bass = \ relative c {% \ override Score.TimeSignature.stencil = ## f \ clef bass \ key f \ major \ once \ override Staff.TimeSignature.style = # 'single-digit \ time 3/4 a4 bes g ~ | g a2 | d2. \ set Staff.explicitKeySignatureVisibility = # all-invisible \ override Staff.KeySignature.break-visibility = # all-invisible \ key c \ major \ time 4/4 g4 gaf | g2 c, 2 \ once \ override Staff.TimeSignature.style = # 'single-digit \ time 3/4 d4 ef | d e2 | a, 2. } \ score {\ new PianoStaff << \ new Staff = "melody" \ melody \ new Staff = "bass" \ bass \ new FiguredBass {\ figuremode {s4 <4> <7> | s2. s2. s2 <4> 4 <7> | s1 s2 <4> 4 <7>}} >> \ layout {\ context {\ Score \ remove "Metronome_mark_engraver" \ remove "Staff_collecting_engraver" \ remove "Bar_number_engraver"} indent = 0} \ midi {}}

Cadentiae duriusculae are mainly used in "Solociniis and mostly in arias and triples", but are, in Bernhard's opinion, "better [...] to be avoided entirely".

Sources and literature (chronological)

  • Christoph Bernhard: Tractatus compositionis augmentatus . Ms. ( online edition Bernhard Lang) .
  • Dietrich Bartel: Handbook of musical figure theory . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1985.
  • Thérèse de Goede: From dissonance to note-cluster: the application of musical-rhetorical figures and dissonances to thoroughbass accompaniment of early 17th-century Italian vocal solo music. In: Early Music. Vol. 33, No. 2, 2005, pp. 233-250.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard: Tractatus , chap. 21st
  2. ^ Bernhard: Tractatus , chap. 34.
  3. ^ Bernhard: Tractatus , chap. 34.