Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 8, 3rd movement: Relation of the 1st violin to the drone

Johnston changes the intonational reference tone for every single note of the melody: only a fifth of the melody notes can be related to the fundamental Db-- of the drone.约翰斯顿对该旋律的每一个音符均调整了其音高参照基准：仅有五分之一的旋律音符可与持续低音（drone）的重降D（Db--）基音建立关联。