Change note
Alternating note (from Italian nota cambiata : "confused note") in today's music theory usually denotes a note that changes
- usually on an easy beat position
- a second away from the previous note,
- returns to her immediately
- and thus diminishing them .
Alternating notes can be dissonant .
example
In this example ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Twelve Variations on " Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman ", KV 265 (300e), Var. VI), diatonic lower alternating notes are colored red ; Chromatic lower alternating notes are colored blue :
Other / more general meanings
In older scripts, alternating notes were used for other types of dissonance. Franz Xaver Murschhauser explains the term in terms of the stressed passage note ( transitus irregularis ). Heinrich Christoph Koch, on the other hand, uses it for free reservations .
Ernst Friedrich Richter uses alternating notes, in addition to the meaning discussed at the beginning, also for free leads and for jumping secondary notes. Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille also subsume the jumping secondary note (including the “Fuxian alternating note”) under the term.
Fux's alternating note
Johann Joseph Fux used the term nota cambiata a dissonant parachutist lower auxiliary note that from a Terzsprung followed Down:
Fux explains the expression cambiata with the fact that the third from the second note to the third “strictly speaking” (“ de rigore ”) would have to occur from the first to the second note, so that the second harmony would be consonant:
literature
(chronologically)
- Franz Xaver Murschhauser: Academia musico-poetica bipartita, or high school of musical composition . Nuremberg 1721.
- Johann Joseph Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum . Vienna 1725 ( online) .
- Johann Georg Sulzer : Art. Change notes . In: General Theory of Fine Arts. Leipzig 1774 ( textlog.de) .
- Heinrich Christoph Koch: Art. Change note . In: Musical Lexicon . Frankfurt 1802, Sp. 1736–1737 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ernst Friedrich Richter: Textbook of Harmony . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1853 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Rudolf Louis, Ludwig Thuille: Harmony . Klett & Hartmann, Stuttgart 1907. 7th edition (1920) on archive.org .
- Reinhard Amon: Lexicon of harmony. Reference work on major minor harmony with analysis codes for functions, levels and jazz chords. Doblinger et al. a., Vienna a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-900695-70-9 , p. 95.
- Jürgen Ulrich : Harmony for practice. Schott, Mainz a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7957-8738-7 , p. 46.
Web links
- Change note (with note example)
- Alternating notes (and passage notes ) with sound samples