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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., and to meaningful changes of texture. My test cases are the first thirteen madrigals from book 5 (1605), chosen because they are predominantly homorhythmic, because they have no independent continuo, 4 and because they have received prior attention from musicologists, whose comments I will adduce...
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Published: 01 October 2023
Appendix Example 2-2. CM schemata in “O primavera” (book 3, no. 11, mm. 62–69; the quinto and canto parts, shown in parentheses, are typical doublings in parallel). More
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Published: 01 October 2023
Appendix Figure 2-2. The contrary motion schemata in the first thirteen madrigals of book 5, by the measure number at the beginning of the schema (those shown in Example 5 are asterisked). The parentheses at m. 22 of no. 9 indicate a fragment of the CMx schema. More
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Published: 01 October 2023
Example 27. Willie Dixon, “You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover” (1962), sung by Bo Diddley. “Payday” type with AB/CD R /R(EF/GH R ) poetic form and long–long–short–long, 8,8,6,8 phrase rhythm. Lines D and H are the same internal refrain line and hook. More
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 235–271.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Megan Kaes Long In 1595 Thomas Morley published The First Booke of Balletts , a collection of “Italian madrigals Englished.” Rather than writing English words for unaltered Italian works as his predecessors had done, Morley created original compositions loosely modeled on Italian works. Analysis...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 199–206.
Published: 01 April 2023
... methodologies to the analysis of rock music, and by its persuasive theoretical and analytical discussions. Nobile received the Society for Music Theory's 2021 Emerging Scholar (Book) Award for Form as Harmony in Rock Music . The award citation describes the book as “an important research reference...
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Journal of Music Theory (2025) 69 (1): 163–167.
Published: 01 April 2025
... and across history. This review highlights aspects of the book that I think will interest music theorists, including those who may be ambivalent about ethnomusicology's emphasis on ethnography. 1 Music Theory in Ethnomusicology begins by pointing out that theorizing is something done by all humans...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 333–338.
Published: 01 October 2023
... appreciable global resonance as well. Nicholas Stoia also figures that you've heard it, and that, like me, you had it somewhere in your head but didn't have a name for it. His book, Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form , conclusively demonstrates...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 161–166.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Allan F. Moore Allan F. Moore is professor of popular music at the University of Surrey. His monograph Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Song will be published in 2011. He is working on books on Anglo-Celtic folk song and on the music of U2. Everett Walter...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 194–199.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to unexpected and lasting effects within and between musical communities, as Gribenski persuasively demonstrates. The archive material discussed in the book ranges widely, including instruments and technologies, such as tuning forks; correspondence between various pitch diplomats including instrument...
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 176–190.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of Erwin Stein?5 The particular bit of root to which Leslie Blasius, in his book Schenker’s Argument and the Claims of Music Theory, wants to reattach Schenker is that of fin-de-siecle German psychology, Philologie, and “the new musical sciences of the later nineteenth century” (86...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 129–134.
Published: 01 April 2022
... on the perspectives of performers? The question is one of several running through the analyses of twentieth-century repertory collected in theorist-pianist Daphne Leong's compelling new book, Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance . At the heart of the book are eight analyses...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 262–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that Gjerdingen is a conservative researcher. His work is based strictly on written musical sources, but nevertheless he manages to reveal unconventional features of the aesthetics, imagery, and musical theory of past centuries. 5 Baragwanath's book ( 2020 ) was not released until a few months after Child...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 April 2024
...: “This book is an offering to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an organization that has had a profound effect on my life” (ix). The prose is clear-eyed and unpretentious, virtues in all of Steinbeck's writing, but the sentiment is hardly simple; it is delicately poised. Note...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
... instruction. In the words of Reilly Smethurst (2017: 515), Since Wilson did not write in an explicatory style, his exegetes have plenty of work to do. Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson is the first book-length effort to focus exclusively on Wilson and his theories and it is hard to imag...
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (2): 261–267.
Published: 01 October 2019
... systematized into a method and packaged into a compel- ling monograph. Doll s love for rock music and his eagerness to share that love are evident in the care he takes in choosing convincing examples, as well as in creating a system that best reflects the genre s idioms and construc- tions.1 The book is well...
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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 Allanbrook Wye Jamison...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 253–264.
Published: 01 October 2011
... a challenge that no previous writer has taken on: to write an analytical and interpretive book on the nineteenth-century Lied that focuses primarily on rhythm and meter. That he should choose the Lied for such a study is entirely natural. After all, rhythm and meter...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of New Music . Oxford University Press , 2020 : 324 pp. ( $53.00 hardcover). Copyright © 2023 by Yale University 2023 THESE TWO BOOKS embody an emerging enactive stance in music theory in which musical structure is theorized as a subjective effect construed or enacted by a listener...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2006
... in Music with Text Oxford University Press, 2006: xii+409 pp. ($65.00 cloth) is an assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago. His book Tonality and Transformation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Buchler, Michael. 2007...