Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]> on four note figures in Mozart:

>Other plainchant snippet, the "tonus peregrinus", can be found in Mozart's
>music: in the Requiem (Introitus, on the words "Te decet Hymnus") ....

Mozarts requiem is actually full of four-note melodic figures.  "Di-es
Ir-ae" or "Con-fu-tat-is, Mal-e-dic-tis" or Introitus, but actually in
almost every section.  Different notes though.  One figure is the
horn-signal in Jupiter-Sinfonie, but set in minor, I think.

Mats Norrman
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