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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  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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