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Agency and Information Content in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century String-Quartet Expositions
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (1): 87–120.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Ben Duane This article examines the phenomenon in which musical lines establish what Edward T. Cone calls virtual agents , making the argument that listeners are more likely to ascribe such agency to lines that have high information content (in the formal, information-theoretic sense). I use...
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Action and Agency Revisited
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 321–371.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Seth Monahan For centuries, metaphors of agency have pervaded music-analytical writing. Today, as in generations past, critics routinely vivify their analytical narrations by ascribing sentience, emotion, and volition to musical works, their internal elements (pitch classes, contrapuntal voices...
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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music by Robert S. Hatten
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 283–291.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Jonathan De Souza Hatten Robert S. . A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music . Indiana University Press , 2018 : x + 326 pp. ( $85.00 cloth, $32.00 paper, $31.99 ebook) Copyright © 2020 by Yale University 2020 Works Cited
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Feeling Meter: Kinesthetic Knowledge and the Case of Recent Progressive Metal
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 185–237.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and intercorporeality of our bodily involvement with the world. It is the feel of living as an animate, environmentally embedded being engaged in some task. It is a means for the body to . . . enact its agency in response to both physical and cultural constraints. It is inscribed in our body schemata...
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Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 363–369.
Published: 01 October 2003
... through the agency of the
listener can the sonic signifier be turned into a meaningful cognitive rep-
resentation. More than that, it is thanks to the intervention of the imagi-
nation—forging the link between the inaudible seventh and the realiza-
tion that this implied dissonance should be followed...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 291–301.
Published: 01 October 2006
... and the Craft of Precision Optics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lindsay, R. Bruce. 1973 . Acoustics: Historical and Philosophical Development . Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross. Pickering, Andrew. 1995 . The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science . Chicago: University of Chicago...
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Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960–2000 ed. by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 347–358.
Published: 01 October 2018
... . 2002 . Feminist Aesthetics in Music . Westport, CT : Greenwood . Monahan Seth . 2013 . “ Action and Agency Revisited .” Journal of Music Theory 57 / 2 : 321 – 71 . Roig-Francoli Miguel . 2008 . Understanding Post-tonal Music . New York : McGraw-Hill . Samuel Rhian...
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Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 123–136.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., in considering the idea of musical agency from the perspective of mimetic participation, Cox claims that we transfer what we would normally do from a first-person perspective to some imagined agent who is vicariously doing that same thing in the music. We do this to main- tain our identity as something...
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New Music as Generalizable Tonal Predictions: Toward an Anti-Racist Framework
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 133–140.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and functions, as well as the generation of expectancy, tension, and resolution on the part of the listener. Importantly, an approach toward studying these pitch-related characteristics of music should accomplish the above goals without taking away the agency of the listener or the performer. Vuust et al...
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Tonality, Racism, and White Indifference
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 89–97.
Published: 01 April 2024
... consistently face that are at times harder to bear. As I prepped for my response to the 2022 American Musicology Society–Society for Music Theory session We've Always Been Here: Black Disabled Musicians and the Academy, which featured a keynote by Leroy Moore, I thought of white agency and the simple fact...
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Cycles in Webern’s Late Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 165–204.
Published: 01 October 2018
... for Harmonic Identity .” Journal of Music Theory 6 / 1 : 109 – 22 . Roeder John . 2009 . “ Constructing Transformational Signification: Gesture and Agency in Bartók’s Scherzo, op. 14, no. 2, measures 1–32 .” Music Theory Online 15 / 1 . www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.09.15.1/mto.09.15.1...
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Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 April 2023
... or performer. An enactive turn could be transformative for music theory, bringing the field closer to musical experience and centering individuals' agency and subjectivity without turning analysis into solipsistic soup. In some respects, these two books could not be more different: the authors do not cite each...
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Performance Spaces for Improvised and Notated Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., but the performer is as well. 5 Furthermore, if a performance space models the choices of a performing agent, what agency is expressed if the performer has no idea that the space exists? To avoid excessive analytical abstraction, my approach to answering these questions concerns itself first and foremost...
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Helmholtz, Music Theory, and Liberal-Progressive History
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
Published: 01 October 2010
... and Winterfeld appears in the latter’s ten-
dency to ascribe some agency behind affinity to the tones themselves. Thus,
rather than musing on past musicians’ hypothetical sensitivity (of lack thereof)
to the qualities of tones in relation to other tones, Winterfeld observes how
“affine” (verwandte...
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Fraudulence and the Gift Economy of Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 April 2010
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of theories seeking to justify recent music could not forestall questions of
agency, responsibility, or sincerity from arising, given that music was, in the
end, a product of human effort. At best, the increasing reliance on theory
could temporarily conceal...
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Ironic Narrative, Ironic Reading
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 95–136.
Published: 01 April 2009
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to imbue melodies with an agency as we track their patterns of movement.
Finally, among many more examples, Vincent Meelberg’s recent work on nar-
rativity in contemporary music (2006) views narrative as a listening strategy
that helps us to come to terms with the temporal unfolding of music’s ele...
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Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (2): 263–279.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and Rhetoric.” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory , ed. Christensen Thomas , 847 – 79 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Monahan Seth . 2013 . “Action and Agency Revisited.” Journal of Music Theory 57 / 2 : 321 – 71 . Peles Stephen . 2004 . “‘Ist...
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Undisciplining Tonality
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 117–124.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in the Music Theory Classroom .” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 32 : 79 – 110 . Peebles Crystal . 2019 . “ Inclusion and Agency in the Undergraduate Theory Core .” Engaging Students 7 . https://engagingstudentsmusic.org/article/view/7361/5715 . Peres Asaf . 2016 . “ The Sonic...
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Narrative Archetypes: A Critique, Theory, and Method of Narrative Analysis
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 April 2003
... Inquiries . Ed. Steven Paul Sher. New York: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1994 . “The Polonaise-Fantasy and Issues of Musical Narrative.” In Chopin Studies 2 . Ed. John Rink. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1998 . “Agencies/Actors in Instrumental Music: The Example of Mahler's...
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Traditio Iohannis Hollandrini
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 October 2013
... a gradual
unfolding over time. It can be terribly difficult to reconstruct this kind of
reception history, particularly for older sources of music theory. (But is it
necessarily any easier in our digital age, where identities of the text and
agency...
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