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Reflection After Composition*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jonathan Harvey
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The bass moves into the middle: this is our musical revolution. Several composers after Webern, myself included, have been fascinated by harmonic structures which radiate out from either side of a central axis in reflecting intervals. Unless a strong contrary line is taken in atonal music the bass will remain at the bottom of what sounds like dissonant music. But in symmetrical mirroring structures it is forced, focal attention is forced, into the axial middle, because all relationships converge there: the sounds point to it.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 140 , March 1982 , pp. 2 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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* This article derives from a lecture on the orchestral work ‘Whom ye adore…’ given at Musica Nova in Glasgow, September 1981.