Music As an Art by Scruton Roger;

Author:Scruton, Roger;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

I have described the effect in somewhat technical terms, but you don’t need the technicalities in order to hear what is going on. It is as though a spirit had arisen out of turbulent clouds and suddenly burst forth into the light – the clouds formed from the key of C minor, the spirit itself, released at last, being in the negation of C minor, namely D flat major. (Major negates minor, and D flat, being removed by a semitone, negates C.)

The violin lands from that bright chord back in the darkness, on B natural and in the key of C minor. For 12 bars the movement stays in that key, using the theme, such as it is, of the tremolo passage, and moving always chromatically, until once again the first violin lands on D flat and leads the other instruments in a gentle modulation to A flat major, the dominant of D flat. There then begins the first real theme of the work, a beautiful, serene melody that has been entirely released from the darkness in which the work began (Ex. 2).

Ex. 2

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