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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 305–323.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., Jehan. 1623. “Au lecteur.” In Hymnes de l'église pour toucher sur l'orgue, avec les fugues et recherches sur leur plain-chant. Paris: Pierre Ballard. Repr., Geneva: Minkoff, 1987 . HEAVENLY DISSONANCES:
THE CADENTIAL SIX-FOUR CHORD
IN FRENCH GRANDS MOTETS...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 111–127.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Steven Rings David Lewin Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations Oxford University Press, 2007: xxxi+258 pp. ($49.95 cloth); David Lewin Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays Oxford University Press, 2007: xiv+168 pp. ($45.00 cloth); David Lewin Studies...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 5. A compositional space for Scambi by Henri Pousseur using a four-dimensional coordinate system (pitch, speed, reverberation, and continuity). The four-dimensional space is approximated using two three-dimensional plots, each representing half of the space.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 11. Graphs of each of the four pages of Novara based on instrumentation.
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in Danses Fantastiques : Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of P. I. Tchaikovsky
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Published: 01 April 2021
Example 5. Franco-Italian “four-cycle” counts. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty , prologue, no. 3 pas de six , variation 4, Canari qui chante , mm. 1–12.
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 95–136.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Michael L. Klein This article discusses irony both as a narrative archetype in tonal music and as an interpretative strategy on the part of the listener. Beginning with a discussion of Northrop Frye's four narrative archetypes (romance, comedy, tragedy, irony), the article turns to a semiotic...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Example 6. Chopin, Nocturne in C minor, op. 48/1, mm. 49–52 (segment of the “dynamized” reprise, fusing four topics: recitative-declamation, chorale, march, and tempest/whirlwind).
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (1): 1–52.
Published: 01 April 2012
...-leading structure—including a three-note octahedral Tonnetz and tetrahedral models of four-note diatonic and chromatic chords. Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer and music theorist who teaches at Princeton University. His book A Geometry of Music was published in 2011, and his album Beat Therapy...
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 191–234.
Published: 01 October 2015
...-tone melodies by situating them within the context of the broader concept of aggregate melodies. These melodies divide into four types, which are also relevant for music by other composers, and can be further described in terms of the relative tightness or looseness of their structural features...
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 235–271.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of Morley's balletts reveals four primary “Englishing” techniques. First, Morley establishes and confirms tonic more thoroughly than the Italians do. Second, the dominant chord plays a larger role in Morley's balletts, often yielding predictive statement-response phrase structures. Third, Morley uses pre...
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Teardrops” from the Five Songs, op. 16 (1916), the fourth of the Four Dirges (1910), and the Tenth Bagatelle (1908). James N. Bennett received his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2015. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. © 2017 by Yale...
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 165–204.
Published: 01 October 2018
... principle produces an ordering of pitch classes that lies behind small formal units, cycles order the presentation of twelve-tone rows and give structure to large formal spans. The present study explores four cyclic organizational principles in works from the String Quartet, op. 28 (1938), to the Second...
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., modality, chord succession, and harmonic function. In demonstrating these concepts, four categories of tonicization are illustrated: primary diatonic , in which a tonicization employs only diatonic chords of the mode; primary chromatic , which occurs due to chromatic inflection or modal borrowing...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 37–61.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of passages from Intermittences clarify the interaction of notational and registral silence in the work. A comparison of four recordings of Intermittences explores how performers realize the work’s notational silences as acoustic ones. Copyright © 2020 by Yale University 2020 Elliott Carter...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 147–201.
Published: 01 October 2020
... keys—all of the modern major and minor keys with up to four signature accidentals. But the route from eight to eighteen keys was not straightforward. This article traces this route by examining how the function of signature flats and sharps changed in seventeenth-century England. At the beginning...
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 193–230.
Published: 01 October 1999
... to reduce polyphonic surfaces to note-against-note backgrounds and to evaluate the realizations of inversional designs. Part III generalizes the partitional model to enumerate and classify the distinct background structures for two-, three-, and four-voice inversional settings. 1999 © Yale University, New...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 April 2006
... structure and the factors that govern our perception of it. I begin by considering one of Bach's four-part harmonizations of the chorale and then turn to the chorale prelude itself. © 2008 by Yale University 2008 David Temperley is associate professor of theory at Eastman School of Music. His...
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 191–226.
Published: 01 October 2009
... cadential six-four chord. 2009 2009 Timothy Cutler is professor of music theory at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is the creator of the Internet Music Theory Database ( www.musictheoryexamples.com ), a collection of roughly 1,500 categorized examples of tonal harmonic and contrapuntal...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 107–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Example 5. Franco-Italian “four-cycle” counts. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty , prologue, no. 3 pas de six , variation 4, Canari qui chante , mm. 1–12. ...
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Example 13. “Ecco, Silvio,” mm. 29–45; open brackets in mm. 34–37 show a two-voice stretto fuga; open brackets and diagonal lines in mm. 39–44 show a four-voice stretto fuga.
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