Abstract
Abstract
An undersurface sequence is a type of motivic parallelism that unifies parallel patterns into a single sequential unit. This article focuses on various undersurface sequences that leading Schenkerian scholars, including Schenker himself, integrated into their voice-leading graphs without explicitly pointing them out. The phenomenon is discussed according to different levels of distance from the surface, starting with sequences that lie very close to the surface and may allow for intuitive auditory perception, and ending with hidden sequences that lie deep in the middleground and are entirely analysis-dependent.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)