Prolongation

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In music, especially Schenkerian analysis, a prolongation creates the detail of a musical composition by elaborating the background structure. Prolongations include diminutions. A coda is a passage which brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

[edit] Further reading

• Straus, Joseph N. (1982). "The Problem of Prolongation in Post-Tonal Music", Journal of Music Theory 31, p.1-21.