A Study of Root Motion in Passages Leading to Final Cadences in Selected Masses of the Late Sixteenth Century
Description:
This study is concerned with the vertical combinations resulting from late sixteenth century cadential formulae and in passages immediately preceding these formulae. The investigation is limited to Masses dating from the last half of the sixteenth century and utilizes compositions from the following composers: Handl, Kerle, Lassus, Merulo, Monte, and Palestrina, Victoria. This study concludes that the progressions I-V-I and I-IV-I appear to be the only two root progressions receiving high enoug…
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Date:
August 1979
Creator:
Lindsey, David R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries