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| Although demotic songs and liturgical chants share common features of musical grammar, such as cadential figures, melodic gestures and so forth, the question of finding historically justifiable associations between the two remains open. Swanson's dancers didn't seem to be performing so much as allowing the audience to observe their inexplicable behavior, which was variously shaded by changes in cadential emphasis, echo, or solo embellishment of patterns previously laid down. Three analyze vocal pieces and seek to illuminate "tonal coherence" through a newly polished tonal lens, focusing on such compositional practices as formal parallels, repetitive units, and cadential formulas. |
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