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(left) Atonal set theorists have used dual transpositions to transform subs...
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Published: 01 April 2025
Figure 7.2. ( left ) Atonal set theorists have used dual transpositions to transform subsets of a composite harmony. ( right ) We can represent these transformations as combining chromatic transposition with a Schritt that moves the two subsets in contrary motion; these two transformations
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Alfred Schnittke’s Triadic Practice
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (2): 243–287.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Christopher Segall Numerous late twentieth-century composers grappled with the problem of using triads in non-tonal ways. Alfred Schnittke’s atonal music of 1974–85 offers a solution by relying on three triad-to-triad relations: P (parallel), S (slide), and M (minor third). The first two...
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WHEN EVEN BECOMES ODD: A PARTITIONAL APPROACH TO INVERSION
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 193–230.
Published: 01 October 1999
...Brian Alegant This paper proposes a refinement of our understanding of pitch-class inversion in atonal and twelve-tone music. Part I of the essay establishes the theoretical foundation. It reviews the index number approach formulated by Milton Babbitt, examines characteristics of even and odd index...
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Bartók's Polymodality: The Dasian and Other Affinity Spaces
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 273–320.
Published: 01 October 2015
... that, unlike other tonal and atonal classic approaches, the Dasian framework enables the analyst to reconcile the constructional character of a Bartókian idiomatic feature (the combination of distinct and integral scale strata) with the interpretation of harmonic space in terms of scale-segment interaction...
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Tonality and Racism
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2024
... . Yust Jason . 2018 . Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form . New York : Oxford University Press . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Yale University 2024 François-Joseph Fétis atonality musical scales keys Joseph Yasser tonality may be the single most important...
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It's the Thought That Counts
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 125–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
... synonymous with non-atonal . Yust pooh-poohs this definition, but many of my favorite composers, from Stravinsky, Messiaen, and Shostakovich to Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, and Sonic Youth, mix tonal and atonal techniques; I often find the tonal/atonal distinction useful when thinking about their music. 2...
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Voice Leading in Set-Class Space
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (1): 45–108.
Published: 01 April 2005
....” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York. Stoecker, Philip. 2002 . “Klumpenhouwer Networks, Trichords, and Axial Isography.” Music Theory Spectrum 24 : 231 –45. Straus, Joseph N. 1997 . “Voice Leading in Atonal Music.” In Music Theory in Concept and Practice , ed. James Baker, David Beach...
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Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 291–302.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Damschroder David . 2008 . Thinking about Harmony: Historical Perspectives on Analysis . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Doll Christopher . 2017...
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The Aesthetics of Music Roger Scruton New York: Oxford University Press, 1997; Paperback Ed., 1999 Xx, 530 Pp.
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (2): 487–494.
Published: 01 October 2000
... not build on the vigorous and technically sophisticated
discussion that greeted the publication of Forte’s The Structure of Atonal
Music in 1973, his criticism nevertheless points to something essential,
namely, that theory’s objects are not given but made, and therefore that
they should be subject...
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Transformational Streams: Unraveling Melodic Processes in Twentieth-Century Motivic Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 69–98.
Published: 01 April 2004
... Analysis and Post-Tonal Music.” In Aspects of Schenkerian Theory , ed. David Beach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 153 -86. Benjamin, William E. 1979 . “Ideas of Order in Motivic Music.” Music Theory Spectrum 1 : 23 -34. Benjamin, William E. 1974 . “The Structure of Atonal Music by Allen...
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An Informal Introduction to Some Formal Concepts from Lewin's Transformational Theory
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 99–141.
Published: 01 April 2004
... University Press. ____. 1995 . Review of Musical Form and Transformation: 4 Analytic Essays. Journal of Music Theory 39 ( 2 ): 342 -84. Rahn, John. 1980 . Basic Atonal Theory . New York: Schirmer Books. ____. 1989 . “Notes on Methodology in Music Theory.” Journal of Music Theory 33 ( 1...
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Schoenberg's “SINGLE SECOND OF MAXIMUM SPIRITUAL Excitement”: COMPRESSION AND EXPANSION IN ERWARTUNG , Op. 17
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 155–214.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Kathryn Whitney 2003 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2003 Adams, Courtney S. “Techniques of Rhythmic Coherence in Schoenberg's Atonal Instrumental Works.” Journal of Musicology 11/3 ( 1993 ): 330 -56. Adorno, T. W. Philosophy of Modern Music . Trans. A. G...
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Journal of Music Theory under Allen Forte's Editorship
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 7–23.
Published: 01 April 2006
... . “Context and Continuity in an Atonal Work: A Set-Theoretic Approach.” Perspectives of New Music 1/2 : 72 –82. Forte, Allen. 1964 . “A Theory of Set-Complexes for Music.” Journal of Music Theory 8/2 : 136 –83. Forte, Allen. 1965 . “The Domain and Relations of Set-complex Theory.” Journal...
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Modality and Death as Racism
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 April 2024
... broadly in agreement with Yust about the problems with the work that tonal and tonality have been involved with, my own work led me toward more upset with tonal 's frequent opposite: modal . What is “modal music”? To riff on Tymoczko's proposal of defining tonal as simply “not atonal,” 2 one...
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Berg’s “Wozzeck”
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (1): 57–65.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Theory Spectrum 1 : 23 – 34 . Hailey Christopher , ed. 2012 . Alban Berg and His World . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Haimo Ethan . 1996 . “ Atonality, Analysis, and the Intentional Fallacy .” Music Theory Spectrum 18 : 167 – 99 . ———. 2006...
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The Complement Union Property in the Music of Elliott Carter
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 April 2004
....” Journal of Music Theory 34.2 : 175 -246. _____. 1994 . “Recommendations for Atonal Music Theory Pedagogy in General: Recognizing and Hearing Set-Classes in Particular.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 8 : 75 -134. _____. 1995 . “Compositional Spaces and Other Territories.” Perspectives...
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Journal of Music Theory over the Years: Content Analysis of the Articles and Related Aspects
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 25–63.
Published: 01 April 2006
... . “The Scientific Image of Music Theory.” Journal of Music Theory 33/1 : 65 –106. Browne, Richmond. 1974 . Review of The Structure of Atonal Music, by Allen Forte. Journal of Music Theory 18/2 : 390 –415. Browne, Richmond. 1979 . “The Inception of the Society for Music Theory.” Music Theory...
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On the Nature of Enlargement
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 31–71.
Published: 01 April 2001
... consider these questions through an examination of en-
largements found in tonal, atonal, serial, and extended tonal works.1
Enlargement is a type of concealed repetition (verborgene Wiederhol-
ung) explicitly discussed by Schenker in Free Composition and identified
in several of his later writings...
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Prolongation of Harmonies Related to the Harmonic Series in Early Post-Tonal Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2002) 46 (1-2): 207–283.
Published: 01 October 2002
... and Psychoacoustic Factors in Atonal Prolongation,” Current Musicology 63 : 7 -26. ____. 1989 . “Atonal Prolongational Structure.” Contemporary Music Review 4 : 65 -87. Lester, Joel. 1970 . “ A Theory of Atonal Prolongations as Used in an Analysis of the Serenade, Op. 24 by Arnold Schoenberg .” Ph.D...
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Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea by Jack Boss
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 369–370.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea, by Jack Boss . Journal of Music Theory 60 / 2 : 263 – 79 . Boss Jack . 2000–2001 . “ The ‘Musical Idea’ and Global Coherence in Schoenberg’s Atonal and Serial Music .” Intégral 14–15 : 209 – 64 . Boss Jack . 2008...
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