Chromatic fourth

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For Chromatic tetrachord, see
Chromatic genus
.
Chromatic run from Chopin's Prelude in C Minor, mm.5-6.[1] Playⓘ

In

chromatic line). The quintessential example is in D minor
with the tonic and dominant notes as boundaries:

\relative c{ \new Staff \with {\remove "Time_signature_engraver" \clef bass } \time 11/4 \key d \minor d cis c b bes a bes b c cis d }

The chromatic fourth was first used in the

Well-Tempered Clavier
, for example (the chromatic fourth is indicated by the red notes):

\relative c'{ \key d \minor \times 2/3 {[d16 e f]} \times 2/3 {[g f e]} \times 2/3 {[f g a]} \times 2/3 {[bes a g]} a8 \override NoteHead.color = #red d cis c b bes a \override NoteHead.color = #black g ~ g f e a }
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the chromatic fourth appears in the cellos and basses. Playⓘ
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This does not mean that the chromatic fourth was always used in a sorrowful or foreboding way, or that the boundaries should always be the tonic and dominant notes. One counterexample comes from the Minuet of

K.
387 (the chromatic fourths are conveniently bracketed by the slurs and set apart with note-to-note dynamics changes):

\relative c'{ \key g \major \time 3/4 \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"violin" \p fis'( d) r d( b) r b( c \f cis \p d \f dis \p e) \f a,( \p bes \f b \p c \f cis \p d \f) }

Musical works using the chromatic fourth or passus duriusculus

In the organ chorale prelude BWV 614, there are chromatic fourths in the three accompanying voices

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-07-310188-0
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  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-691-05716-3
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  3. ISBN 0-19-816563-3
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