Parallel Intervals for Piano - 3 Parallel Fourths
This third piece is built out of only perfect fourth intervals, played simultaneously in the right or left hand. On the piano, the perfect fourth interval is 5 notes apart.
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This third piece is build out of only perfect fourth intervals, played simultaneously in the right or left hand. On the piano, the perfect fourth interval is 5 notes apart.
The perfect fourth, played on its own, has a very unresolved feeling. The perfect fourth wants to take the listener home. This Parallel Fourths piece is forced to defy the natural yearning of the perfect fourth to resolve, because each fourth is played by yet another fourth. Basically, all normal conventions of harmony are forced to be abandoned.
This abandoning of harmony may come as a shock to the listener, especially after the first two light-hearted pieces-- theParallel Seconds and Parallel Thirds. It’s not the intention of the composer to shock the listener. In fact, the composer attempts to tame the Parallel Fourths by further restricting them to a constant regular alternating of the fourths between the right and left hands, without any variety in tempo or meter, except at the very end.
What dimensions of music does that leave for creating interest and momentum in the piece? Listen for accent marks and changes in dynamics (loudness). Especially, listen for variety in the horizontal lines of the parallel notes, which are sometimes played very repetitively, and at other times with suddenly jumps out of line.
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