Improving the practice and performance of contemporary music
Loop C - loop 6 - regressive period with chords
Except for a few examples of note-addition, the note operations in this period are mainly note-diminutions. The rhythm operations in this period are exclusively augmentations: the rhythm continuously becomes broader and broader as the period moves on. Dynamics, however, do not move in a decrescendo. Instead, they evolve in crescendo from piano in bar 229 to fortissimo in bar 252. Accents are added to further enhance the structure and direction of this regressive period. This period already started in the former regressive period. The pedaling throughout the period stays full pedal, end even the short chords of the beginning of the period receive a full pedal when their length broadens. The melodic curve does not evolve much.