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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Eric Drott This article presents a critique of the commonplace trope that holds genre to have declined in relevance under modernism. Contrary to the widespread notion that composers’ repudiation of received tradition rendered the very idea of genre categories obsolete, this article argues...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 75–122.
Published: 01 April 2008
... courtois , now a common label for “high-style” songs. Other literary scholars, notably Paul Zumthor and Pierre Bec, have discussed problems in classifying styles and genres. References to genres in medieval texts are ambiguous, and manuscripts rarely group songs by genre. Theorists such as Raimon Vidal...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 285–331.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Migration, traditional blues traveled with them, but the faster pace of urban life engendered new approaches to blues that reflected the new environment, and rhythm and blues emerged in the early postwar period as an urbanized transformation of the earlier genre. Rhythm and blues was loud, emphatically...
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 51–88.
Published: 01 April 2016
... circles of Schumann's large-scale instrumental forms, and the tendency for concerto form to attract less interest among theorists compared to other instrumental genres. Historical grounding for the analysis arises from the value Schumann and members of his circle placed on musical close reading...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 April 2008
... and musical writings have barely figured in the study of the Renaissance dialogue, yet these works offer specific insights about the nature of the genre. In addition to Morley's treatise, works discussed in detail include Anton Francesco Doni's Dialogo della musica (1544), Gioseffo Zarlino's Dimostrationi...
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 95–136.
Published: 01 April 2009
... interpretation of musical narratives must be invested in the semantic level (topics, codes, conventions, genres) as well as the syntactic one (harmony, voice leading). The four archetypes function as structures of the musical text and as master signifiers that the listener uses to organize an interpretation...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 287–323.
Published: 01 October 2021
... formal types were compatible with Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk aesthetic, and the analytic method suggests a path toward further engagement with other nineteenth-century opera and other genres that combine music, text, and dramatic storytelling. Works Cited Abbate Carolyn . 1989 . “ Opera...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that amorous sweetness was associated with the vocal serenade, a genre evocative of sweet melodies and the ardent love of courtship. The musical elements that articulated serenade topics, what Stephen Rumph calls figurae, saturated slow movements of early nineteenth-century Italian opera. These included...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., approaching form as a process comprising the unfolding of its topical components ( 1982 ). Topics creep into most of Nazaykinsky's earlier scholarship as well, including his ( 1972 ) book on the psychology of music perception, in which “genres” are viewed as communicative devices. But it was in the context...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
... between music and dance in an actual performance but also to the music culture and tradition underlying the genre in question. The multimodal experience of this music for a music-cultural insider, however, encompasses (1) specific relationships between the sound features and one's embodied knowledge...
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (2): 495–498.
Published: 01 October 2000
... of a multisectional
suite by Yes. It not only situates the song and the group within a larger
sociocultural context (see also Edward Macan’s Rocking the Classics,
also published by Oxford, for a thorough study of the progressive rock
genre), but also explores how “Close to the Edge” draws upon art-music
elements...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 419–431.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., and viewpoints of interest to special-
ists and cite much of the extensive literature that has accumulated around
each genre.
Journal of Music Theory 57:2, Fall 2013
DOI 10.1215/00222909-2323524 © 2013 by Yale University 419
420 JOURNAL of MUSIC THEORY
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 303–314.
Published: 01 October 2022
...), which supplies the longlist and final selections for his genre-wide corpus: 50 Cent is “50Cents,” Dizzee Rascal is “Dizzie Rascal,” Kirko Bangz is “Kiroko Bangz,” and Slick Rick is “Slick Rich.” Elsewhere, Digable Planets is rendered as “Digible Planets” (194). 16 For more on the endemic presence...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 383–418.
Published: 01 October 2013
... Theory to Historical Context .” Ph.D. diss. , Yale University . ———. 1995 . “ Form, Genre, and Style in the Eighteenth-Century Rondo .” Music Theory Spectrum 17/1 : 27 – 52 . ———. 1999 . “ Formenlehre Revived .” Intégral 13 : 143 – 200 . ———. 2008 . Some Eighteenth-Century...
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (1): 141–180.
Published: 01 April 2005
... of Musicology, 1967. ———. 1728 . “ Remarques sur les pièces de ce livre, & sur les différens genres de musique. ” Preface to Pièces de clavecin: Nouvelles suites. Reprint. New York: Broude, 1967. ———. 1737 . Génération harmonique . Reprinted in Jean Philippe Rameau: Complete Theoretical...
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 253–264.
Published: 01 October 2011
... evolved from a folk genre into an art-music
genre—that is, as a high-art consciousness emerged gradually out of the orig-
inary Volkstümlichkeit—irregularities multiplied, in both poem and music,
and they became expressive devices in themselves, in the separate...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 375–386.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Rolling Stone ( 2021 ) remade the list, with more genre diversity and better representation of women artists and artists of color, but the methodology remains comparatively opaque ("a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers . . . as well as figures from the music industry and leading...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 117–124.
Published: 01 April 2024
...., Music Theory Remixed [Holm-Hudson [ 2016 ], Theory for Today's Musician [Turek and McCarthy 2019 ], and Music Theory for Musical Theatre [Bell and Chicurel 2008 ]), which is surprising given the importance of syncopation and other forms of rhythmic play in these genres. The multiauthor online...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 339–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
... 2010b ). In a similar vein to chapter 2, the third chapter concludes with a section that draws together the components of prosody to describe how they contribute to genre and artist specific vocal performances. Also of note in chapter 2 is the theme of emotion, which features in the analysis...
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 215–222.
Published: 01 April 2003
... of the diatonic genre. Since he includes the
“Phrygian” second degree as part of mixture, Schenker’s mixed genre—
his major/minor system—includes no fewer than eleven pitches per
octave. These are pitches, not pitch classes: C-sharp and D-flat are not the
same thing (Hyer understands this).3 Schenker takes...
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