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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 April 2015
... schema Così fan tutte Artaserse eighteenth-century opera Works Cited Agawu V. Kofi. 1991 . Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classical Music . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . ———. 2009 . Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 119–129.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Robert O. Gjerdingen Robert O. Gjerdingen is the author of several books, articles, and reviews in the fields of music theory, music perception, and eighteenth-century musical style. He has served on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum , the Journal of Music Theory...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Matthew L. C. Boyle Abstract The critical reception of early nineteenth-century Italian opera has long focused on its supposed cloying sweetness. This sweetness, often framed as amorous, shaped the discourse and affective experiences of primo ottocento opera. Stendhal, for instance, likened...
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (2): 225–283.
Published: 01 October 2012
... us
of the centrality of opera to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century musical cul-
ture and of the fact that developments in instrumental music have often
reflected prior developments in opera. Rosen’s chapter on Bellini is informa-
tive...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the eighteenth century likely both helped and was helped by the contredanse. In 1716, the Paris Opera held its first series of bals publics , balls open to anyone who could pay the admission fee and where all were required to wear a mask. Richard Templar Semmens ( 2004 ) notes that, by 1744, eighteenth-century...
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (1): 67–77.
Published: 01 April 2014
... on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the Twenty-First Century , ed. Giger Andreas Mathiesen Thomas J. , 195 – 216 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Caplin William . 2005 . “ On the Relation of Musical Topoi to Formal Function .” Eighteenth-Century Music 2 : 113...
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (2): 263–279.
Published: 01 October 2016
... by a heavy reli-
ance on secondary sources. Moreover, the degree to which the earlier think-
ers cited correspond to Schoenberg is variable. While many of the nineteenth-
century figures discussed undoubtedly did leave their mark on Schoenberg,
Boss also attempts to associate Schoenberg with eighteenth...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 128–139.
Published: 01 April 2006
... musical life in preceding chapters as a kind of hors
d’oeuvre. It is useful to be reminded, for instance, that a significant number
of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian musicians worked in Russia for
significant periods as composers of court operas and entertainments, satisfy-
ing...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 85–135.
Published: 01 April 2007
... that their graduates
dominated the field of opera for much of the eighteenth century.
Later reception
The term partimento began the eighteenth century as a regional variant of basso
continuo. Neapolitan maestros, instead of viewing basso continuo...
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 273–304.
Published: 01 October 2003
... describes the eighteenth-century notion of the monstrous in conjunc-
tion with music criticism and Rameau’s opera: see Dill 1998, 12–14. I am grate-
ful to Thomas Christensen for suggesting the relevance of this notion to the argu-
ment of the present study.
32. Es sind freylich nicht allemal...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 April 2020
... into the Culture and Cognition of Eighteenth-Century Tonality with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony as a Case Study .” PhD diss. , Yale University . Byros Vasili . 2015 . “ Hauptruhepuncte des Geistes: Punctuation Schemas and the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata .” In What Is a Cadence? Theoretical...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 April 2007
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partimento-based works that tried to cope with the problems raised in teach-
ing composition under this new aesthetic regime.
This altered situation was also reflected in the way that partimenti were
used. In the eighteenth century, the realization of a partimento was generally
improvised...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that in the eighteenth century it was common to take three-part textures as a point of departure, such as Corelli's trio sonatas, instead of the four-part structures exemplified in Bach's chorales (Holtmeier 2007 : 9). 42 The three traditions would influence later music theory pedagogy both inside and outside...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... 28 Bobrovsky (1978: 21) traced the origin of the three all the way back to Aristotle. Noteworthy is his discussion of the eighteenth-century notion of music as rhetoric, particularly as manifested in Mattheson's writings (22). 29 There are many striking parallels between numerous elements...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 149–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... homophonic textures when those suited them, and they even knew how to construct the particular hierarchy that came to prevail in the eighteenth century. But most of them preferred doing what I have called “the time warp” (see McClary 2016 ). 5 Yes, their successors looked back and dismissed...
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (1): 141–180.
Published: 01 April 2005
... fondamentale: Connaissance scientifique et représentation de la musique.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 245 : 91 –131. ———. 1989 . “D'Alembert diffuseur de la théorie harmonique de Rameau: Déduction scientifique et simplification musicale.” In Jean D'Alembert, savant et philosophe...
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 127–169.
Published: 01 April 2000
.... 1796 . Elementi Teorico-Pratici di Musica . 2 vols. Rome. Gauldin, Robert. 1995 . A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint . Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press. Gessele, Cynthia M. 1989 . “ The Institutionalization of Music Theory in France 1764–1802 .” Ph.D. diss...
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 51–83.
Published: 01 April 2007
... different styles convincingly, skills indispens-
able if one wanted to survive in the boisterous opera market of the eighteenth
(and nineteenth) century. Partimento training played a decisive role in the
development of these skills and contributed...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 181–218.
Published: 01 October 2008
...: Clarendon Press. Eisen, Cliff. 2005 . “The Rise (and Fall) of the Concerto Virtuoso in the Late Eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto , ed. Simon Keefe, 177 -91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Engel, Hans. 1974 . Das Instrumentalkonzert: Eine...
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of painting a more complete and analytically adequate picture of actual practices. Its goals are, first, to give an idea of the range of strategies available to composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, second, to show how familiarity with these strategies can open a space for new...
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