Symphony No.8 “Unfinished” by Schubert arr. Janos Kovacs

Tonal Genesis through the “Symbol Tone”  in Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony

“Considering The “symbol tone” which generates the most important modulation of a musical part appears as a clear system in some beethovenian sonata forms from different periods.

At the beginning of the work it seems to be hidden (for example merely as a first, strange, insignificant tone), however, progressively it will take various forms integrated in accordic, traditional trisonic components: root, third, fifth, (dominant) seventh, (diminished) ninth with all the possible alterations of classical harmony (diminished, augmented), as we will see in the case of Schubert’s “mysterious” Unfinished Symphony…