Unit 4, Energetics Flashcards
The tendency of unstable notes above a referential platform to descend to the referential platform.
Melodic gravity (Larson)
The tendency of unstable notes to move to the nearest stable tone.
Melodic magnetism
The tendency of a melodic pattern to continue in a direction.
Melodic inertia
Kurth’s energy associated with melody and motion.
Kinetic energy
Kurth’s energy associated with harmonies.
Potential energy
Extended tertian harmonies that build up harmonic material (potential) resistance through which the melody must penetrate to continue motion.
Sensuous harmonies
The branch of physics associated with the internal structure of objects (as opposed to the motion of objects in relation to space).
Continuum Mechanics
The state of a musical object (e.g., interval, chord) that is deformed through a compacting process, creating relative dissonance.
Compression
The state of a musical object (e.g., interval, chord) that is deformed through a stretching process, creating relative dissonance.
Tension
The consonant state of a musical object (e.g., interval, chord).
Static Equilibrium
The tonal tendency of moving away from the tonic.
Centrifugal Force
The tonal tendency of maintaining or returning to the tonic.
Centripetal Force
Robert Hatten’s term for an “energetic shaping through time”.
Gesture
The energetic metaphor associated with the resolution of dissonance through absorption and transfer of motion from of musical element to another.
Musical gravity (Rameau)
Larson’s term related to assuming only one musical force at play at a given moment.
Single mechanism fallacy
