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 |
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