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Serial Procedures in the Ricercar II of Stravinsky's “Cantata”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Colin Mason
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The Ricercar II, for solo tenor, in Stravinsky's Cantata contains what is perhaps the most vividly and thrillingly audible transposition in any serial work, by any composer, when at the last line of the penultimate verse (‘And rose again on the third day’) Stravinsky for the first time in the song lifts the series by a semitone, so that the singer on the final word touches for the first and only time a high F sharp (Ex.1).

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Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 61-2 , Summer 1962 , pp. 6 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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