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Journal Article
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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Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 287–320.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Allan Keiler Jean-Philippe Rameau’s understanding of harmony comes to us in the form of a theory that presents many interpretive difficulties. What writers of figured bass manuals were trying to achieve, on the other hand, is often more accessible, though as they go about their practical concerns...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 227–254.
Published: 01 October 2009
...: Particular directed
motions cannot always be converted into generalized functions. A familiar
nonmusical example illustrates the difficulty. Suppose Great-Aunt Abigail
takes a train from Albany to New York City, moving south by roughly 150
miles. Does this directed motion...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 144–150.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Structure: An Investigation of Schenker s Formenlehre, Music Analysis 15/ii-iii (1996):191 297, which takes an enormous step toward remedying the inconsistencies in Schenker s treatment of the topic. A complete formulation of Schenker s conception faces several re- maining difficulties, as Smith himself...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 271–281.
Published: 01 October 2011
... for expressive
purposes” (19–20, 24). Both arguments present conceptual difficulties.
As an illustration of a pre-Willaertian approach to musical affect, the
author discusses two famous passages from Guillaume Du Fay’s tenor motet
Ave regina coelorum...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 215–222.
Published: 01 April 2003
... care not to describe
mixture as chromatic, although we will see that he gets into difficulty on
occasion. When he does introduce chromaticism, he equates it with toni-
cization, as in his chapter heading “Chromatisierungs-(Tonikalisierungs-)
prozesse” (“Processes of Chromatization [Tonicization...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 April 2003
...,” a descendant model in which musical nar-
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rative is a transposed reflection of literary narrative, and a sibling model
in which the two media share a common foundation but varying mani-
festations.
The descendant model results in insuperable difficulties, since it is
undermined by qualities...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 April 2010
..., postwar music as a limit case for the difficulties posed by
modern art in general. In this essay, I reexamine the assumptions of the orig-
inal article before discussing how two composers from that era, György Ligeti
and Helmut Lachenmann, confronted the situation Cavell diagnoses as his
central...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (2): 289–296.
Published: 01 October 2017
... for chronometers that
would be capable of measuring time objectively. Several such inventions, lit-
tle known to modern scholars, preceded the arrival of Maelzel’s metronome
in 1813, but none of them had any practical impact, owing to the difficulty...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 1–43.
Published: 01 April 2000
...-harmonic conflicts can
have on the dramatic unfolding of a musical artwork. The tonic key areas
from these movements pose special difficulties for analysis of melodic
diminution. In particular, each main theme emphasizes a pitch that is un-
stable in the context of an opening tonic expansion...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 April 2010
... improvisation, the situation of modernism is one in which “the artist cre-
ates blocks of percepts and affects, but the only law of creation is that the
compound must stand up on its own. The artist’s greatest difficulty is to make
it stand up on its own” (1991/1994, 164).1
These statements bristle...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 119–129.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of fugue. All but the simplest partimenti already require the ability to
manipulate a two-voice framework according to the norms of eighteenth-
century practice. Partimenti of moderate difficulty begin to assume some
facility in recognizing potential imitative...
View articletitled, The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice/the Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
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Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 151–162.
Published: 01 April 2001
... by Breitkopf and Härtel and later by
Cotta Verlag; its subsequent acceptance by Cotta after intervention by
Eugen d’Albert (22); Schenker’s difficulties with Universal Edition about
Der Tonwille13 and his subsequent move to the Munich-based Drei-
Masken Verlag for its continuation as Das Meisterwerk in der...
View articletitled, Heinrich Schenker: Nach Tagebüchern Und Briefen in Der Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection, University of California, Riverside Hellmut Federhofer Studien Zur Musikwissenschaft Vol. 3 Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985 Ix, 380 Pp.
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Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 37–60.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of Cicero and Quintilian, with their focus
on the moral qualities of the speaker, on the humanist lit-
erature of the Renaissance is well known (see, e.g., Con-
ley 1990).
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There are at least two interrelated sets of difficulties with this model...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 231–236.
Published: 01 April 2000
... difficulties it brings in its wake,
what follows is an attempt to offer just such an interpretive framework.
(p. 16)
Readers who feel uncertain about Cross’s methods and the direction he
will take are advised to skip ahead to the conclusion. There, one finds fur-
ther discussion of “timelessness...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 April 2015
... and
armonie6 The H universelle poses considerable difficulties selle ave different h orderings. The most widely available
for citation, due in part to errors in printing and pagination, version, on which this article relies, is the facsimile edition
as well as the fact that portions of the work were...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 April 2005
... types appear only in mature ones (see p.
85.2). Beach does not claim, then, that all the suites are equally unified, and he
professes to admire—if with reservation—some that are less so.
6. Beach himself has no difficulty with first structural tones that are only implicit...
Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 170–176.
Published: 01 April 2001
... everything be practiced. Certain difficulties, experi-
enced by the composer himself, can only be borne and overcome through
the spirit of the performer, not by practicing (75).
All practicing of studies misses the point, as fingering, dynamics, and
position of hand and fingers in any...
View articletitled, The Art of Performance Heinrich Schenker Edited by Heribert Esser Translated by Irene Schreier Scott New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 Xxvii, 101 Pp.
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Journal Article
Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 85–135.
Published: 01 April 2007
... like
themselves, find in the execution of the accompanying, several difficulties
almost insurmountable. Eight or ten years are necessary for succeeding therein
in any tolerable degree. (Rousseau ca. 1775)
Had Rousseau been apprenticed at an early age to a demanding...
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