Composers of film and video game music often modulate to keys with a “chromatic” form of this relationship to maintain musical interest. For 10 points each:
[10h] What Latin-derived term do music theorists use to refer to the third scale degree?
ANSWER: mediant [accept chromatic mediant; reject “submediant”]
[10m] In minor-key movements in sonata form, the key of the second theme should be rooted on the mediant, giving it this relationship to the key of the first. E-flat major is this type of key with respect to C minor.
ANSWER: relative major
[10e] Chromatic mediants are associated with a style of chromaticism popularized by this German romantic composer. An enigmatic half-diminished chord recurs throughout Tristan and Isolde, an opera by this composer of The Ring Cycle.
ANSWER: Richard Wagner [or Wilhelm Richard Wagner]
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