It could just as easily be classified as a C7sus4 without the 5th but context is everything: does the chord act like a C7sus4 or is it free of the restrictions of functional harmony? The great thing about quartal harmony is the indeterminacy of chords built from fourths. Tertian harmony...
For the quartet, he devised a new system of composing that allowed the use of harmonies without a sense of harmonic progression: a kind of silent harmonic practice. All the different chords that could appear in the quartet were defined at the outset, with no particular relationships to one an...
t find in J.S.’s cool-keys preludes are the empty first-beat fake-outs in the Choruses still making me fall on my face while I’m trying to count on my fingers. Harmonically, ’twas a bold choice to go with the seldom seen borrowed viiº instead of the V7. ...
On one level writing of any kind is a very inefficient form of politics. Anything literature does it does over a long period of time, whereas a speech or a thrown rock or a political rally can have an almost immediate effect. On the other hand, over time and subterraneanly, writing has...