Chromatic completion in the late vocal music of Haydn and Mozart: A technical, philosophic, and historical study
Chromatic completion is widely encountered in the late vocal music of Mozart and Haydn. Again and again, there are structural units defined by the gradual unfolding of all twelve members of the chromatic aggregate. In these unfoldings, the twelfth and 'completing' tone arrives in a manner that is structurally and expressively significant
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2008