Obliterated Tonality In “Pastoral Fantasy Op.37” by Eugene Bozza

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Menofia university college education quality

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With the beginning of the twentieth century (1900-2000), most authors became saturated with the use of traditional tonalism,
And what the researcher faced in her teaching by receiving students’ questions about concepts and terms they could not comprehend their meaning is what prompted her to conduct this study with a view to .
1- Getting to know the style of the French author Eugene Botsa.
2- Identifying the quality of tonalities and harmonics used in the Rural Fantasy of the Father and Piano, Class 37 by Eugene Botsa.The researcher concluded that Botsa's style was influenced by the characteristics of the impressionist school created by Debussy, especially with regard to his interest in individual instruments and chamber music instruments.
In terms of Tunalism, Botsa has invented the “Blank Tunalism” method, which is based on several techniques to obliterate the main features of the ladder used, including not using the fifth degree before the harmony of the first degree, and replacing it with other degrees such as the seventh, the sixth and the second, and when it is used by the harmony of the degree The fifth (V) does not distract it, with the addition of dissonant tones (such as the second and fourth) to the final harmony of the qaflah, which reduces the sense of monotony and stereotyping of the musical syllable, and the research concluded with

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