{"id":1965,"date":"2012-05-01T05:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:26:27","slug":"sonic-enharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2012\/05\/sonic-enharmonic.html","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Enharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words can be bent in pronounciation to suggest other words — subtly shading, or adding on to signification.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In B.o.B.’s “So Good<\/a>,” the word groups “how you feel [fe-el],” “fantasy oh,” “put your feet up,” and “Se\u00f1orita” are made almost to rhyme, and conform to the same four-syllable emphasis-pattern. The sound is the word is the music is the sound. It’s joy-inducing virtuoso display.<\/p>\n

Wordless music also offers possibilities for sonic enharmony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I first encountered Brahms’s A-Minor Intermezzo, Opus 116, no. 2 through Arthur Schnabel<\/a>‘s recording. One detail in the playing so captivated me — it might be what made me want to learn the entire Opus 116 set.<\/p>\n

In Schnabel’s recording, the notes including\u00a0the Scotch snaps<\/a> in measures 51 and 52, are ellided in such a way that the sonority, the syncopated rhythm, the emphasis pattern, the voice-leading, dissonance and resolution are so much of one piece, the elements resist being teased apart. (The half-notes in the alto voice begin the second syllable of four-syllable groupings…)
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\nBrahms: Intermezzo in A Minor, opus 116, no. 2, mm. 51-52<\/p>\n

I can’t say that the notation, the text, leads clearly to Schnabel’s performance. But I coveted the synergy of that performance in my own recording, twenty years later.<\/p>\n

And this four-syllable pattern of emphasis, this lexia<\/a>, is with us still (“how you fe-el”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words can be bent in pronounciation to suggest other words — subtly shading, or adding on to signification. In B.o.B.’s “So Good,” the word groups “how you feel [fe-el],” “fantasy oh,” “put your feet up,” and “Se\u00f1orita” are made almost to rhyme, and conform to the same four-syllable emphasis-pattern. The sound is the word is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[922,140,921,57,923,924,737,902,926,925,927,567],"class_list":{"0":"post-1965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-so-good","9":"tag-arthur","10":"tag-b-o-b","11":"tag-brahms","12":"tag-emphasis","13":"tag-emphasis-pattern","14":"tag-johannes","15":"tag-lexia","16":"tag-opus-116","17":"tag-pronounciation","18":"tag-rhyme","19":"tag-schnabel","20":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}