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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Alison Stevens Abstract Dance in general and the contredanse in particular have long been recognized as important to eighteenth-century European music. But music theorists have tended to understate the contredanse's unique contribution, when they haven't overlooked it entirely: dances are more...
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in Music in the Body: The Eighteenth-Century Contredanse and Hypermetrical Hearing
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2021
Image 2b. “Vienne” from Raoul-Auger Feuillet's 1706 collection of contredanses (written-out repeats removed).
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Theory solicited articles from the five young scholars featured in this special issue. The contributors, all experienced dancers and some with extensive training, write about Norwegian telespringar , pan-Latin salsa, French and English contredanse, Russian ballet, and Georgian American modern dance...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Alison Stevens then analyzes the eighteenth-century contredanse as a form that demonstrates hierarchies in both metrical grouping and the grouping of material (sounds/movements). Establishing both dance and music as mimetic movement experience, Stevens also argues that this experience could have...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 11–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Once a particular relation is set for a song, that relation is often fixed for the duration of the composition. Thus Alison Stevens, in her contribution to this special issue, notes that in the eighteenth-century contredanse the phrase rhythms have the scheme ---1) (2-3-4-1)(2-3-4-1)(2-3-4--- , where...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 April 2020
... . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Narmour Eugene . 1990 . The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Neumeyer David . 2006 . “ The Contredanse, Classical Finales, and Caplin’s Formal...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 39–80.
Published: 01 April 2021
...), and has continued to examine such relations in her later books (Jordan 2000 , 2015 ). See also Bell 2017 , Horlacher 2018 , and Leaman 2016 on ballet; Stevens 2018 on eighteenth-century contredanse; Short 2019 on musical theater; Goldberg 2019 on Bulgarian folk dance; and Bilidas 2019 on tap...
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