Re: Translation for musical phrase "Niveau-Überschr eitung" or "Niveau-Unterschreitung"?

[Francisco Vila]

2011/2/1 M Watts <address@hidden>:
> On 01/31/2011 07:27 PM, Francisco Vila wrote:
>>
>> I vaguely recall this case known as 'false relation'.  The listener
>> could be fooled into hearing e' a' but the a' is sung by another
>> voice.  This would be the 'soft' case, the hard case is for 'f b'
>> tritone sung by different voices.  Don't rely too much in this...
>>
>
> Nein, false relation is where you have two successive chords, where a note
> of the first is inflected with an accidental to become a note of the second
> chord, and this happens in different parts.
>
> So if D minor is followed by D major, the F to F# should happen in the same
> voice, to avoid 'false relation'.

Yes, "cromatic" false relation.  The other is "tritone" false
relation.  Anyway, "Part Overlap" is --I think-- the name of the game.

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