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Between Freedom and Control: Composing Out, Compositional Process, and Structure in the Music of Boulez
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (2): 201–242.
Published: 01 October 2017
... techniques, because they stem from a desire to emphasize and systematically realize the very harmonic elements and relationships that motivated their development. The article outlines a typology of methods of composing out that are central to Boulez’s compositional style in a broader sense. In this way...
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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
...Yayoi U. Everett Parsons Laurel Ravenscroft Brenda , eds., Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960–2000 , Oxford University Press , 2016 : viii + 244 pp. ( $69.00 cloth, $29.95 paper) Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Works Cited...
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Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 262–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Composers in the Old Conservatories was. 4 For a more complete balance of what has been produced in this field in recent years, we recommend the book La didattica del partimento by Rosa Cafiero ( 2020 ), whose main purpose is precisely to point out what advances have been made and what paths...
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“Amagi-goe” 天城越え, ending. Ishikawa Sayuri, composed by Gen Tetsuya 弦哲也, 198...
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Example 2: “Amagi-goe” 天城越え, ending. Ishikawa Sayuri, composed by Gen Tetsuya 弦哲也, 1986.
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Punctuation and Sense in Late-Eighteenth-Century Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 235–282.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Danuta Mirka Two closely interrelated techniques of phrase expansion occasionally used by eighteenth-century composers but so far not recognized by music theorists are twisted caesuras and overridden caesuras . Both of them represent complex games played by composers with their listeners on two...
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What Do Signatures Signify?: The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 147–201.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Megan Kaes Long At the beginning of the seventeenth century English composers used only a handful of keys: they combined five keynotes (G, A, C, D, and F) with the three signatures documented in English solmization theory (♮,♭, and♭♭). By the end of the century English theorists described eighteen...
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The Cadenza as Parenthesis: An Analytic Approach
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 211–251.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., relating, and rehearing elements of the concerto movement proper. The cadenza's dual function grants it a potential far exceeding the simple characterization as parenthesis. Skillfully composed cadenzas exploit the tension between local and global functions and can initiate subtle yet profound rehearings...
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Philosophy Recomposed: Stanley Cavell and the Critique of New Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Amy Bauer Stanley Cavell's 1965 article “Music Discomposed” argues that modernist works have become codependent on the philosophical justification surrounding their production and consumption. The writings and compositions of two contemporary composers, György Ligeti and Helmut Lachenmann, echo...
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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
..., etc.), and fictionalized versions of their composers. This study investigates the use of such agential conceits and the conventions that seem to govern them, using the opening of Beethoven’s A-minor Quartet, op. 132, as a central test case. The descriptive model it constructs borrows key concepts from...
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Schumann's a-Minor Mood: Late-Style Dialectics in the First Movement of the Cello Concerto
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 51–88.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Peter H. Smith Schumann's adaptations of eighteenth-century instrumental forms have long been regarded as problematic, as have the works of his late style period of the 1850s. The Cello Concerto op. 129 (composed 1850, published 1854) is a late work based on classical models that has earned a place...
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Dvořák and Subordinate Theme Closure: “Positive” Analytic Results for a “Negative” Approach to Romantic Form
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 203–240.
Published: 01 October 2020
... study of subordinate theme closure in Dvořák’s mature chamber music responds both to Horton’s interest in asynchrony between formal design and tonal structure and to his and Vande Moortele’s calls for expanding the range of composers included in these endeavors. Attention to a less studied composer...
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Orbiting: Wayne Shorter's Ever-Expanding Circles
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Antares Boyle Abstract Wayne Shorter has been recognized as one of the most significant composers of both the 1960s postbop and post-2000 contemporary jazz eras. These periods are linked in Shorter's career by performances and rearrangements of his composition “Orbits,” originally recorded in 1967...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 18. Agogically accented notes from Miles Davis's first solo in Flamenco Sketches , composed by Davis and Bill Evans, depicted in scale degree versus onset beat performance space.
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“Tsugaru Kaikyō: Fuyugeshiki” 津軽海峡・冬景色, opening. Ishikawa Sayuri 石川さゆり, com...
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Example 1: “Tsugaru Kaikyō: Fuyugeshiki” 津軽海峡・冬景色, opening. Ishikawa Sayuri 石川さゆり, composed by Miki Takashi 三木たかし, 1977.
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Harmonic Cross-Reference and the Dialectic of Articulation and Continuity in Sonata Expositions of Schubert and Brahms
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 143–179.
Published: 01 October 2006
... these composers with one among a number of integrative strategies to counterbalance the threat of self-contained lyricism in the middle sections of their tripartite expositions. In one type of expositional context, this integration involves harmonic linkage designed specifically to efface a formal boundary...
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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 period of repertoire discussed, and major composers or theorists they were devoted to. Among the major findings, one can trace in a precise manner the centripetal process toward focus on Schenkerian and set theories (and the more recent opposite process), the almost total separation of discussions...
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The Realization of Partimenti: An Introduction
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 51–83.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Giorgio Sanguinetti A partimento is a linear guide for the improvisation of a keyboard piece. Partimenti were developed for the training of composers in the conservatories of Naples during the eighteenth century. They contain all the information needed for the realization of complete pieces...
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Partimento, que me veux-tu?
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 85–135.
Published: 01 April 2007
... advantage to composers so trained. Though an old, nonverbal method of craft instruction, partimenti were nonetheless a cognitively optimal means of developing fluency in a complex, multivoice style of music. In memorizing exemplars of small contrapuntal schemata, fitting them to the matching locations...
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Dear Stanley
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Dmitri Tymoczko Part personal reminiscence and part scholarly disquisition, this article discusses some ways in which Stanley Cavell's work has shaped my own thinking and composing. I begin by suggesting that Cavell's overarching goal is to “redeem” traditional philosophy (and secondarily, avant...
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Stanley Cavell on Modern Music: “Music Discomposed” and “A Matter of Meaning It” After Forty Years
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 37–60.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Franklin Cox Cavell's influential mid-1960s critique of the “new music” of the postwar era poses significant challenges for contemporary composers who value this music. As with postmodernist critics, he has ably identified shortcomings in justifications for recent modernist music. With the benefit...
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