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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Jennifer Bain The music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) has often been described as standing outside medieval chant traditions. This article argues that although many features of her music deviate from early chant, her repertoire conforms instead in remarkable ways with a late chant style, which...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 75–122.
Published: 01 April 2008
...-century troubadours and trouvères that delineate a “high style,” including chansons , and a “low style,” including dances and pastourelles . The dichotomy originated in the nineteenth century with Gaston Paris's concept of amour courtois , from which Roger Dragonetti later derived the term grand chant...
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in Danses Fantastiques : Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of P. I. Tchaikovsky
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2021
Example 5. Franco-Italian “four-cycle” counts. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty , prologue, no. 3 pas de six , variation 4, Canari qui chante , mm. 1–12.
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in Danses Fantastiques : Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of P. I. Tchaikovsky
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2021
Example 14. The dancer articulates R2−1, consonant with the music's R4−3. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty , prologue, no. 3 pas de six , variation 4, Canari qui chante , mm. 9–12.
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 63–97.
Published: 01 April 2015
.... 1893 . Glavneĭshie pesnopeniia bozhestvennoĭ liturgii, molebnogo peniia, panikhidy i vsenoshchnogo bdeniia (The Main Chants of the Divine Liturgy, the Moleben, the Memorial Service, and the All-Night Vigil) . N.p. Sposobin Igor . [1951] 1994 . Elementarnaia Teoriia Muzyki (Elementary...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 April 2008
.... New Haven: Yale University Press. Bailey, Terence. 1974 . The Intonation Formulas of Western Chant . Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. ____, trans. 1979 . Commemoratio Brevis de Tonis et Psalmis Modulandis . Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Bernhard, Michael. 1990...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., that assumption is mistaken.
To be sure, there are good reasons that Hollandrinus has remained a
rather obscure figure until now. Although his name did pop up in a few
manuscripts known to scholars in the early twentieth century as a “Magister”
of chant pedagogy, we knew nothing of the person. Hugo...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 151–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
... to correspond to the four finals of chant
or that this scale provided the basis for the diatonic matrix that defined the
notation of pitch for the next three centuries. The entry on Alia Musica
emphasizes its use of type melodies for the modes as a distinguishing feature,
even though...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 255–261.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the sixteenth century assume at least a partial transposition, or transpositio ex parte , of the chant in question. Nowacki points to Franchino Gaffurio's Practica musice as defining confinalis , for the first time, as the note that divides the authentic modal octave at the harmonic mean and forms the upper...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 356–368.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of Nicholas Baragwanath's most intriguing proposals is that underneath the ornate galant surface was a skeletal mental layer based on Gregorian chant, related to the rudimentary training of countless European musicians in the eighteenth century. Example 1. Partial paraphrase of Gjerdingen ( 1988 : 26...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the authoritative aura of plainchant. 1 (A few medieval French motets have newly composed or secular tenors, but the majority are drawn from chant.) Tenors are the most regularly structured rhythmically of the voices and are normally the lowest voice in the texture. In the ars nova , the extended durations...
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 371.
Published: 01 October 2003
... 2003 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2003 CONTRIBUTORS
Jennifer Bain is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Dalhousie Uni-
versity. Her upcoming publications and research projects center on chant
analysis, comparing striking melodic similarities...
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 235–271.
Published: 01 October 2015
... shall see, these subtle shifts
in Morley’s musical rhetoric are crucial to the sense of tonality that his bal-
letts evoke.
For example, though Sing we and chant it shares much of its skeleton with
its model, Gastoldi’s L’innamorato (A lieta vita), Morley imparts a dynamic
sense...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 April 2024
... common consensus around modal seems to be that modal music is anything that is neither tonal nor atonal—a vast world-encircling bucket into which medieval chant, Renaissance polyphony, Sacred Harp music, later jazz, most rock, and every kind of non-Europe-originating music on Earth all get tossed...
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 325–362.
Published: 01 October 2003
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1989, 136–37)1
The early twelfth-century writer Johannes Cotto makes clear in De Musica
cum Tonario that these hierarchical categories in fact have very specific
ramifications for pitch organization:
What the grammarians call “colon,” “comma,” and “period” in prose, this
in chant certain...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 141–148.
Published: 01 April 2024
... chant revival provides an interesting case study. Nathan L. Lam ( 2020 : 321–24) chronicles how French musicians Louis Niedermeyer and Joseph d'Ortigue (contemporaries of Fétis) prohibited musica ficta in chant realizations for fear that raised leading tones—a customary sixteenth-century cadential...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 107–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Example 5. Franco-Italian “four-cycle” counts. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty , prologue, no. 3 pas de six , variation 4, Canari qui chante , mm. 1–12. ...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 137–159.
Published: 01 April 2007
... e de' più celebri artisti di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne.... 4 vols. Palermo: Dalla Tipografia reale di guerra. Biferi. 1770 . Traité de musique abrégé, divisé en trois parties. La première traite du Chant, la seconde de l'accompagnement du clavecin, et la troisième de la...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 262–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
... conservatory enabled musicians to achieve high and innovative artistic results. What is impressive about these tests was the students' ability to write in a few hours complex dispositions and fugues over bass lines (or, in the case of chants données, below a melody) without the aid of a musical instrument...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 9–12.
Published: 01 April 2008
...–23.
1997. Review of Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research, by Lawrence Earp.
Plainsong and Medieval Music 6/2: 180–84.
1997. Review of La Réforme cistercienne du Plain-Chant: Étude d’un traité théorique,
by Claire Maître. Notes 53/4: 1132–34.
1997. Review of Musica...
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