At 5:01 AM -0800 11/22/07, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007, at 5:57 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Barry Manilow (over)uses the previous tonic to
become the new leading tone when he modulates
up a semitone, which is widely considered to be
tasteless these days.
Really? That's tasteless? It seems perfectly
fine to me. Rather ordinary, true, but what's
wrong with ordinary? Is good old II-V-I
tasteless now, too?
I'd say, rather, that in both cases while the
effect may be approaching cliché status, both are
still psychologically sound. As long as we're
dealing with unabashedly tonal music, that
halfstep lift in the first case still generates a
psychological lift as well as a musical lift,
while with ii7 V7 I you can still get anywhere
you want to go in a very smooth fashion.
And while you may love to hate Barry Manilow
most, the lift was an effective arranging trick
for the best throughout the '60s and '70s.
Renaissance cadential trills (or baroque
appoggiaturas for that matter) are also clichés,
but they also still work just fine
psychologically.
John
P.S. Thanks for the suggestions on building a
conductor's score, especially to Steve. I'll be
working on that today, hopefully.
John
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John R. Howell
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College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
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