ABSTRACT
Melody, the play of intervallic colors, is contour and rhythm narrowly intertwined, and the combination creates form. From a musician’s perspective, a chord is a melody whose tones sound simultaneously, and thus we break [zerlegen] a chord to perceive its musical sense. The diatonic scale with its triads resembles the harmonic series (a broken chord!) and the orchestral instruments with their tones depend on the harmonic series. Thus, it is understandable that the apex of diatonic music coincides with the apex of orchestral music. Haydn, Mozart! Compare the “natural” instrumentation plane of a Mozart score with the harmonic series: https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203961445/999b25d6-beaf-40f9-b390-510586b2dae6/content/fig4_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
