Unfolding (music)

Unfolding: outlining thirds through skipping between the upper and lower notes  Play .

In Schenkerian analysis, unfolding (German: Ausfaltung) or compound melody is the implication of more than one melody or line by a single voice through skipping back and forth between the notes of the two melodies. In music cognition, the phenomenon is also known as melodic fission.

Unfolding is a type of prolongation, "by means of the unfolding of intervals horizontally."[1] Though the notes skipped between, those heard, may be considered near the foreground, the dyads, those implied, are in the middle or background. Middleground dyads are "unfolded" in the foreground: "intervals conceptually heard as sounding together are separated in time, unfolded, as it where, into a melodic sequence."[2]

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References

  1. Pandey, Ashish (2005). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Volume 1, p.50. Gyan. ISBN 9788182052918.
  2. Samarotto, Frank (2009). "The Divided Tonic in the First Movement of Beethoven's Op. 132", Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms, p.5. Sly, Gordon, ed. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409493938.
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