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Interpretive Difficulty and Emergent Structure in Contemporary Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 223–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Ben Duinker Abstract This article explores the notion of interpretive difficulty in contemporary music, treating it as a structural, tangible aspect of analysis. Interpretive difficulty comprises any challenge a performer may encounter—physical, cognitive, emotional, specific to a musical passage...
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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
... overview, see Biamonte 2017 . Among other recent work, see Doll 2017 ; Temperley 2018 ; Stoia 2021 ; and Nobile 2021 . Works Cited Anderson Julian . 2004 . “ Sibelius and Contemporary Music .” In Cambridge Companion to Sibelius , edited by Grimley Daniel , 196 – 216 . Cambridge...
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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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Fraudulence and the Gift Economy of Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Eric Drott In his classic essay “Music Discomposed,” Stanley Cavell draws attention to the threat of fraudulence that pervades contemporary art music. With the erosion of convention, not only is the ability of listeners to comprehend new music called into question, so too is their ability...
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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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Leonhard Euler’s Unfinished Theory of Rhythm
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 245–286.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... Curiously, the transference of Euler’s consonance principles to the temporal elements of music renders a theory that has interesting and provocative connections to several contemporary theories of rhythm and meter, such as those of Harald Krebs, Richard Cohn, Daphne Leong, and Scott Murphy. This article...
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Elliott Carter and Musical Silence: Intermittences and “Sound and Silence in Time”
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 37–61.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Guy Capuzzo This article examines Elliott Carter’s most extensive forays into the theory and practice of musical silence: the 2005 composition Intermittences and the 1957 lecture “Sound and Silence in Time: A Contemporary Approach to the Elements of Music.” Taken together, the piece and the lecture...
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An Eighteenth-Century Theory of Musical Cognition?: John Holden’s Essay towards a Rational System of Music (1770)
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 205–248.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., and expectation. These concepts allow him to develop detailed speculations about a range of conscious and unconscious dispositions of perception. This study explicates the Essay ’s speculative theories and contextualizes them both within eighteenth-century music theory and in light of contemporary psychology...
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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
... in general, and the use
of S in particular, with Schnittke’s concept of polystylism, the incorporation
of past musical styles into contemporary music.7 For these scholars, the use of
triads, representing relics of a tonal past, constitutes a facet of Schnittke’s
polystylistic impulse. This article...
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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
... . Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues . Farnham : Ashgate . Hutcheon Linda . 1988 . A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction . New York : Routledge . Lochhead Judy . 2016 . Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis...
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Maria Schneider’s Forms: Norms and Deviations in a Contemporary Jazz Corpus
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 35–70.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Ben Geyer This study assesses twenty-five works by contemporary jazz composer Maria Schneider, tracking her compositional tendencies, identifying areas of continuity with the big-band arranging tradition, and capturing developments and idiosyncrasies apparent in her music. Schneider most often...
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The End(s) of Genre
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 April 2013
... .” In The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music , ed. Heile Björn , 39 – 60 . Farnham, UK : Ashgate . Dubiel Joseph . 1992 . “ Three Essays on Milton Babbitt (Part 3) .” Perspectives of New Music 30 : 82 – 131 . Fineberg Joshua . 2000 . “ Spectral Music .” Contemporary Music Review...
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Showing Off: Variation in the Display Episodes of Mozart's Piano Concertos
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 181–218.
Published: 01 October 2008
... apparatus. I suggest, however, that by using the vantage point of variation, conceived broadly, not just as a technique but as a manner of organizing musical thoughts, new insights can emerge about these passages. This wider conception of variation is sanctioned both by historical precedent (Daube, Koch...
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Tonality, Racism, and White Indifference
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 89–97.
Published: 01 April 2024
... азербайджанских ладов в контексте современной теории музыки” (“The Intonational System of Azerbaijani Lāds in the Context of Contemporary Music Theory”) . PhD diss., Bakinskaia Muzykal'naia Akademiia imeni Uzeira Gadzhibeĭli, Baku, Azerbaijan . Bazayev Inessa , and Segall Christopher , eds. 2021...
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 2007
... . “Pitch Class Set Structures in Contemporary Jazz.” Jazzforschung 14 : 133 -71. Santa, Matthew. 2003 . “Nonatonic Progressions in the Music of John Coltraine.” Annual Review of Jazz Studies 13 : 13 -25. Schuller, Gunther. 1958 . “Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation...
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Monotonality and Scalar Modulation in Sibelius’s Tapiola
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 85–118.
Published: 01 April 2018
... organization and ultimately between the work’s monothematicism and its sense of tonality. Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Jean Sibelius Tapiola scale collections tonality Works Cited Anderson Julian . 2004 . “ Sibelius and Contemporary Music .” In The Cambridge Companion...
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Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson by Terumi Narushima
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
....html . Tresch John Dolan Emily I. . 2013 . “ Toward a New Organology: Instruments of Music and Science .” Osiris 28 , no. 1 : 278 – 98 . Wolf Daniel James . 2003 . “ Alternative Tunings, Alternative Tonalities .” Contemporary Music Review 22 , nos. 1–2 : 3 – 14...
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Segmentation in Music: Generalizing a Piece-Sensitive Approach
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 171–229.
Published: 01 April 2000
... Conditions in Listening to Music: An Approach to Lerdahl and Jackendoff's Grouping Preference Rules.” Music Perception 4 (4): 325 -59. ———. 1989 . “A Perceptual Approach to Contemporary Musical Forms.” Contemporary Music Review 4 : 213 -30. Gordon, John W., and J. M. Grey. 1978 . “Perception...
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Composition versus Improvisation?
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (2): 241–275.
Published: 01 October 2005
... in the Context of Jazz Piano Improvisation.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University. Sorrell, Neil. 1992 . “Improvisation.” In Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought , ed. John Paynter, Tim Howell, Richard Orton, and Peter Seymour. London: Routledge. Straus, Joseph. 2000 . Introduction to Post-tonal...
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Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 333–338.
Published: 01 October 2023
... that “it” is indeed a thing. Invoking a term that will be familiar to contemporary music theorists, he labels it the “Sweet Thing” scheme , and his book takes us along on a treasure hunt for it. Pirates are involved. Why write a history and undertake extensive analysis of a fuzzy concept? A more straightforward...
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