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stct. Some, including Donald Fncis Tovey and even Karl Geiringer, have found in its remoteness signs of the composerâs waning creative powers.2 The prevalence of the major mode and apparent simplicity of this work provide, however, a necessary foil for highly inventive chromatic experimentation, which is itself the basis for formal innovation at the broadest levels of structure. Chromaticism is the means in this quartet for remarkably profound personal musings on Haydnâs part, couched of course within his chacteristically restined mode of expression. My theory of chromaticism in classic-period music has been fully set forth in a previous article (Baker 1993), in which I deal with instrumental music of Mozart. The basic tenets of the theory should become evident in the process of the analytical discussion of op. 76/6 to follow. A brief comment on the theoretical foundations of my approach is appropriate here, however. My view of chromaticism has developed from two main sources: 1) theorists contempory with Haydn and Mozart, and 2) theorists working at the end of the tonal period, especially Schoenberg, Webern, and Schenker. Schoenberg and Webern, in particular, held that the process of unfolding of the twelve pitch-classes of the chromatic universe is
Journal of Music Theory – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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