Abstract

This article presents an overview of a new pre-cadential schema in the galant style: the Volta. The Volta is a two-part schema featuring a prominent chromatic reversal: stage one charges up the dominant with a ♯4^–5^ melodic string, while stage two releases to the tonic using a ♮4^–3^ string. The schema sheds light on many aspects of galant music-making: its variants illustrate how central features of a schematic prototype motivate or constrain plausible manipulations, its pre-cadential function reveals the intimate communion between surface schemas and the harmonic patterns inscribed within the style’s formal scripts, and, finally, its use as a climactic gesture in opera seria calls attention to the semantic possibilities of schemas beyond their role in defining musical topics. These and other aspects of the Volta are illustrated using representative excerpts from eighteenth-century masters like Leonardo Vinci, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Johann Adolf Hasse, Baldassare Galuppi, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

中文翻译：

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沃尔特：发狂的姿态

摘要

本文以galant样式概述了一种新的前节奏模式：Volta。Volta是一个由两部分组成的模式，具有突出的色彩反转：第一阶段使用♯4^ -5 ^旋律弦为主音充电，而第二阶段使用♮4 ^ -3 ^弦向音调释放。该图式展示了舞曲制作的许多方面：其变体说明了原理图原型的中心特征如何激励或约束合理的操纵，其前踏功能揭示了表面图式与刻画在风格正式形式中的和声图案之间的紧密联系。剧本，最后将其用作歌剧系列中的高潮手势提请注意模式在定义音乐主题中的作用之外的语义可能性。沃尔特的这些方面和其他方面都使用了莱昂纳多·芬奇，乔瓦尼·巴蒂斯塔·佩戈莱斯西，约翰·阿道夫·哈斯，巴尔达萨里·加卢普皮，约瑟夫·海顿和沃尔夫冈·阿玛迪乌斯·莫扎特等18世纪大师的代表摘录进行了说明。