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Section E. is not at all complete yet. In the moment only this is available:  altered chords / sections 1-3, 5, and part of section 9
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1. general information
2. diminished third on #4^; 
score examples (choose examples from the list below):
 
Schubert, Gesänge des Harfners I and III (D 478 and D 480)  beginning of both songs
Am Grabe Anselmos (D 504)  beginning of the song
Schubert, Piano Trio 1, D 896, beginning of the second movement
Schubert, Erster Verlust D 226 Mozart, Piano Sonata in A minor K 310, second movement, middle section (development)
Mozart, Piano Sonata in Bb major K 333, first movement, development section
Bellini, Dolente immagine di Fille mia Mozart, Symphony in C major "Jupiter", second movement    transition to the second theme, and final part of the middle section (development)
Schubert, Symphonie No. 5 in Bb major, first movement   transition to the second group Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, first movement, first theme
3. enharmonization of the double diminished triad and seventh chord, and of the hard diminished seventh chord
 
score examples
4. #IV and IIhv in other inversions
 
score examples
5. scheme of all altered chords
6. diminished third on #4^:
score examples
7. diminished third op 7^:
score examples
8. diminished third on 2^ in minor, and on #2^ in major:
score examples
9. overview of the enharmonizations and possible modulations
10. other issues?

 

 
Bellini, Dolente immagine di Fille mia
version with piano:
recording by Pavarotti and 
James Levine
(1988)
orchestrated version:
recording by Pavarotti and Orchestrara del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Richard Bonynge
version with piano:
recording by Renata Tebaldi and 
Giorgio Favaretto
version with piano:
recording by Giorgio Berrugi and Eytan Pessen
(2013)
here is the complete score (pdf)
Below you see the first couplet of Bellini's Dolente immagine di Fille mia. There is just a single altered chord in this piece, at the beginning of third line of the poem (Che piu desideri? What more do you desire?). Partly because of the text repetition in measures 8-10, we can see this moment as aim of the preceding measures, and as a dramatic climax. The altered chord in measure 8 and 9 is a French augmented ( or: IIhv4 / 3 ); it is used between dominant harmonies as a chromatic neighbouring chord, thus emphasizing the dominant.ann
https://sites.google.com/site/edwardlein/Home/translations :
  E minor:       I                               I   V6 (II6)  IV6dm / IV6    I6/4 V7     I
                                                             chromatic bass 
                                                             (lamento-bass) with
                                                             some faux-bourdon
 E minor:   I                          I                      V7        I        (etc.)
 E minor:  V                   IIhv4/3   V                      IIhv4/3   V                               I                       (V7)
                                                                           French
 E minor: III                     (V7)    III                 II6        I6/4                     V7           I