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In his study of oral traditions in the epic poetry of the Balkans, Albert Lord pointed to
“enjambment” as one mark of a literary, learned style.2 Enjambment means that an individual poetic line is not an autonomous and self-contained unit; its syntax or sense overlaps the next line or lines. In contrast to literary poetic traditions, oral traditions often avoid
enjambment because an improvising bard has greater freedom to mix and match good
lines if they are self-contained and interchangeable. Suspensions obviously create small
forms of musical enjambment, since they force one event to overlap another. But Leclair
also favored larger forms of enjambment where one schema either overlaps another or
morphs into another. The following two musical examples are thus literary in the ways in
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The Do-Re-Mi (see chap. 6) was one of the most frequent opening gambits in galant
music. It was used in every decade and in every genre. It often had its normal bass part in
the upper voice and its “melody” in the bass. The ease with which it could be thus inverted
made it a favorite schema for movements in which the bass begins with an imitation of the
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• Three events equally spaced, or occasionally presented with an extended first
stage. In brisk tempos, each event will likely fall on a downbeat.
• In the melody, an emphasis on the stepwise ascent – – . Variants may
include chromatic passing tones.
• In the bass, an emphasis on – – (sometimes substitutes for )
• A sequence of chords in 5/3, 6/3, and 5/3 positions. Delaying the bass descent
from to creates a dissonance during the second stage. Variants
• An Adeste Fidelis type with a melody featuring leaps down to and up from
• A two-part, “Do-Re . . . Re-Mi” type. . ...
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