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Rameau’s Changing Views on Supposition and Suspension

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Nathan John Martin
Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (2): 121–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1650397
Published: 01 October 2012
... Albert . 1971 . “ La Supposition and Changing Concepts of Dissonance in Baroque Theory .” Journal of the American Musicological Society 24 : 63 – 84 . ———. 1980 . “ Rameau, Jean-Philippe, §7 .” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , ed. Sadie Stanley , 15 : 568 – 70...
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Changes in the rhythm section's approach create a textural shift at m. 14 in the opening head (Miles Smiles version, 0:00–0:19).

Changes in the rhythm section's approach create a textural shift at m. 14 i...

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in Orbiting: Wayne Shorter's Ever-Expanding Circles > Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2024
Example 2. Changes in the rhythm section's approach create a textural shift at m. 14 in the opening head ( Miles Smiles version, 0:00–0:19). More
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Figure 9. The Scambi performance space annotated with the number of parameters that change across each family of audio segments.

The Scambi performance space annotated with the number of parameters that...

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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 9. The Scambi performance space annotated with the number of parameters that change across each family of audio segments. More
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Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Music

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John Roeder
Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1219187
Published: 01 April 2011
... of melody and harmony and define the field of possibilities in which each melodic/harmonic change takes place—a “space” in which the changes can be heard as meaningful in relation both to themselves and to the text. Overall, these results suggest how the ostensibly mechanical melodic and harmonic processes...
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Hemiolic Metric Space in Afro-Diasporic Popular Musics

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Stephen Guerra
Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (2): 231–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-7795281
Published: 01 October 2019
...Stephen Guerra Pitch spaces such as the circle of fifths model change through time in a composition, recording, or improvisation. Metric spaces theorized over the past twenty years do the same for changes (notated or not) in meter. Trajectories in either space and their potentially reinforcing...
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Helmholtz, Music Theory, and Liberal-Progressive History

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Benjamin Steege
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1214939
Published: 01 October 2010
... change in musical structures. Yet this historical dimension, in many ways typical of its era, is complicated by a tenuous balance between the determinism demanded by rigorous scientific explanation and Helmholtz's evident desire to preserve a complex role for the “choice” of fundamental aesthetic...
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The Mutable Subject: Tonal and Rhythmic Transformations in Selected Fugues of J. S. Bach

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Mark Anson-Cartwright
Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (1): 1–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2413562
Published: 01 April 2014
...Mark Anson-Cartwright Among the many qualities that set Bach apart from his contemporaries is his manner of transforming his thematic material—most notably his fugue subjects. Bach himself believed that all good fugue writers should know how and when to change (or mutate) their subjects...
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Information Flow and Repetition in Music

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David Temperley
Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (2): 155–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2781759
Published: 01 October 2014
...David Temperley A corpus analysis of common-practice themes shows that, when an intervallic pattern is repeated with one changed interval, the changed interval tends to be larger in the second instance of the pattern than in the first; the analysis also shows that the second instance...
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Schemata, Splices, and Elisions in Monteverdi's Book 5 Madrigals

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Peter Schubert
Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 251–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10699715
Published: 01 October 2023
... between the last chord of one progression and the first of the next. Each one of these essentially contrapuntal strategies is a crucial building block of Monteverdi's tonal structures: together they contribute to closing tonal circles, to an expressive use of register, and to meaningful changes of texture...
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What Do Signatures Signify?: The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key

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Megan Kaes Long
Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 147–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-8550771
Published: 01 October 2020
... keys—all of the modern major and minor keys with up to four signature accidentals. But the route from eight to eighteen keys was not straightforward. This article traces this route by examining how the function of signature flats and sharps changed in seventeenth-century England. At the beginning...
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MIND AND MUSIC: ON INTENTIONALITY, MUSIC THEORY, AND ANALYSIS

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Edward Pearsall
Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 231–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3090661
Published: 01 October 1999
... of neural impulses during perception to show how the brain creates interconnected neural maps from which memory, the foundation for consciousness, is constructed. Such maps are adaptive; they can change in response to a plethora of ongoing associations in the cortex. Hence, perceptions, rather than...
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Form, Structure, and Musical Drama in Two Mozart Expositions

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Lauri Suurpää
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 181–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-015
Published: 01 October 2006
... theoretical contexts. Ultimately, the dramatic and technical factors are intertwined. Context also plays an important role in arriving at a plausible interpretation: In these expositions, the first impression suggested by the local context often changes when the ensuing musical material, the global context...
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Journal of Music Theory over the Years: Content Analysis of the Articles and Related Aspects

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Yosef Goldenberg
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 25–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-005
Published: 01 April 2006
... studies, and the slow and partial change that involves metatheoretical approaches. Other aspects include the growth of the journal, its importance, and its editors and contributors. © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Yosef Goldenberg teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Jerusalem...
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Of Time and Eternity: Reflections on “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”

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William Renwick
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 65–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-007
Published: 01 April 2006
... a multifaceted perspective on time suggested by the change of year. In particular, the chromatic fourth becomes a tonality-defining element that contrasts the essentially diatonic melody. I suggest that the tonal and motivic balances in the piece reflect the duality of regret for the past and hope for the future...
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Inventing a Melody with Harmony: Tonal Potential and Bach's “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”

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Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 77–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-008
Published: 01 April 2006
... stimulates new levels and types of connection, just as a melodic pattern continually recalibrates and interacts with potential harmonic and contrapuntal orientations. Changing or shifting emphases in one orientation respond to the demands or constraints of another; in particular, I track the tonal potential...
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On Pitch-Class Set Cartography: Relations between Voice-Leading Spaces and Fourier Spaces

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Justin Hoffman
Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 219–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2009-016
Published: 01 October 2008
... voice leading with motion through Fourier space. Voice-leading displacements of each of the six interval classes can be associated with specific changes of position in each of the six Fourier spaces for twelve-tone equal temperament. Likewise, displacement spaces, showing all of the sets that can...
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Characteristic Tonality in the Balletti of Gastoldi, Morley, and Hassler

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Megan Kaes Long
Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 235–271.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-3136010
Published: 01 October 2015
...; points of contact between them provide insight into precise agents of musical change around the turn of the seventeenth century. Megan Kaes Long is assistant professor of music theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. © 2015 by Yale University 2015 Thomas Morley Giovanni...
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Figure 7. Repetition of parallel passages. Row 1: Example numbers are given for reference. Row 2: Bits of text are shown as reminders. Row 3: Parallel passages are aligned vertically, verse numbers are in boldface, note names indicate roots of initial and final chords, and italicized letters refer to chord factors in elisions (single asterisk in verse 6 refers to the change in final chord resulting from the splice). Row 4: Intervals of transposition are shown for repeated progressions. Row 5: Schemata include stretto fuga and a single “O bellezza” schema in the first of the “Bramasti” phrases (shown with a double asterisk). Row 6: All high points are in the C5 octave, high points higher in repetition are underlined. Row 7: Texture is in numbers of voices.

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in Schemata, Splices, and Elisions in Monteverdi's Book 5 Madrigals > Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2023
refer to chord factors in elisions (single asterisk in verse 6 refers to the change in final chord resulting from the splice). Row 4: Intervals of transposition are shown for repeated progressions. Row 5: Schemata include stretto fuga and a single “O bellezza” schema in the first of the “Bramasti More
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Bodily Hearing: Physiological Metaphors and Musical Understanding

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Andrew Mead
Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (1): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3090688
Published: 01 April 1999
...- tinuing in this direction will eventually lead to a rate that is perceived as pitch, not rhythm. The operation we have used to change the pulse-rate has always been the same, either halving or doubling. It is our physio- logical limitations that define the narrow band of rates that allow us to hear...
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Segmentation in Music: Generalizing a Piece-Sensitive Approach

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David S. Lefkowitz, Kristin Taavola
Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 171–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3090673
Published: 01 April 2000
... or cooperate to produce segments. Among the parameters which Hasty mentions are dynamics, instrumental voice, timbre, register and registral interval, contiguity, motivic pattern, and set-class (Hasty 1981, 57). Potential segmentations arise because of discontinuities (that is, abrupt changes) along each...
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