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The Oxford History of Western Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 128–139.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Daniel Harrison Richard Taruskin The Oxford History of Western Music ; Oxford University Press, 2004: 6 vols., xxxiii+854+758+830+826+557+329 ($699.00 cloth) © 2008 by Yale University 2008 Daniel Harrison is the Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory at Yale University. His...
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Music Recomposed: Remarks on the History of the Same
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 25–36.
Published: 01 April 2010
...—inevitably equivocal—is to be found not in the shopworn trope that imparts a sovereign irreversibility to the history of form or style, but in the historicality of subjectivity on one hand and of musical meaning on the other. Lawrence Kramer is professor of English and music at Fordham University...
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Helmholtz, Music Theory, and Liberal-Progressive History
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 283–310.
Published: 01 October 2010
.... In Selected Writings , Vol. 1 , 1913–1926, ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, 297 -360. Cambridge, Ma: Belknap Press. ———. 1999 . The Arcades Project . Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ———. 2003 . “On the Concept of History.” Trans. Harry...
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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 of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 119–129.
Published: 01 April 2013
...: History, Theory, and Practice . Oxford University Press , 2012 : xiv+385 pp. ( $49.95 cloth ) Baragwanath Nicholas The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera . Indiana University Press , 2011 : xxiv+407 pp. ( $49.95 cloth ) ©...
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Toward a “Global” History of Music Theory
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 147–187.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Nathan John Martin Abstract The history of music theory, as it has usually been taught in the United States, has focused on a small canon of texts written mostly in Latin, Italian, French, and German. This article advocates a more expansive view of the subdiscipline's remit by way of three case...
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Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 333–338.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Joti Rockwell [email protected] Nicholas Stoia . Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular Form . Oxford University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2023 by Yale University 2023 you've heard this sort of thing before. You've heard...
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Journal of Music Theory under Allen Forte's Editorship
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 7–23.
Published: 01 April 2006
... Kraehenbuehl. When he left his position at both the university and the journal in 1960, the editorship passed to Allen Forte, who functioned in that capacity for the next seven years, making him not only the longest-serving editor in the journal's history, but also one at an especially crucial period, when...
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Schubert, Chromaticism, and the Ascending 5-6 Sequence
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 253–275.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of the 5-6 cycle are separately considered. The 5-phase trajectories are classified as diatonic, idiosyncratic, or obstinate. Despite its long history and current dominance, the mode of analysis based on Roman numerals and tonicizations is eschewed for sequential progressions. Instead, the connective role...
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Music in Dialogue: Conversational, Literary, and Didactic Discourse about Music in the Renaissance
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 April 2008
... of understanding the broader history of the dialogue and the role of spatiality and temporality in creating verisimilitude. While Doni's Dialogo may be seen as an attempt at interpolating “real music” into the conversational and literary genre of the dialogue, Morley's didactic treatise represents the culmination...
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The Wheatstone Concertina and Symmetrical Arrangements of Tonal Space
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone , used the concertina as a demonstration tool in public lectures intended to popularize Helmholtz's acoustic theories. The English concertina's history reveals the peculiar fissures and overlaps between scientific and popular cultures, speculative...
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Introduction
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2010
... sought in music.” In this introduction, a brief history behind the issue is presented and a comparison is drawn between the tasks of music theory and Cavell's “demands” upon philosophy. By glossing Cavell's notion of the “scene of instruction,” questions of teaching, epistemic justification...
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Tonal Structures in Bellini
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (2): 225–283.
Published: 01 October 2012
... in Bellini of tonal pairing, usually (but not always) involving relative keys. The sonorità or focal melodic pitch, long associated with Verdi’s operas, is found to play a unifying role in the second-act finale of Norma . Issues of reception history, text criticism, and analytical methodology are also...
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Schumann's a-Minor Mood: Late-Style Dialectics in the First Movement of the Cello Concerto
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 51–88.
Published: 01 April 2016
... akin to an A-minor mood, similar to Beethoven's C-minor mood, and that he did so across the boundaries of genre and style period that critics have drawn as part of his reception history. Recognizing the continuity is crucial since the inclination to sharply subdivide Schumann's compositional evolution...
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Liquidation and Its Origins
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Áine Heneghan Liquidation is an idiosyncratic term in music theory. This article considers its origins in the writings and teaching of Arnold Schoenberg. Tracing its history uncovers the resonances that it held for him and refines our understanding of the term. Paying close attention...
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How the Triad Took (a) Root
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 43–62.
Published: 01 April 2022
... later than has been supposed. The conclusion of the article traces the process by which the term root gained ascendancy in English texts and considers how this history fits into larger trends of thoroughbass and harmony instruction. 21 I have arranged these data by individual authors because...
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Topic Theory in Soviet Musicology
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 189–222.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to topics, with the topical explorations embedded within broader considerations of style, history, and musical structure and discourse. By the early 1960s, a culture of topical analysis, one that emphasized topics' expressive and formal functions, was in place, and over the next decade it began to transform...
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Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 363–369.
Published: 01 October 2003
.... Christensen, Thomas. 1993 . Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. (Ed.) 2003 . Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cook, Nicholas. 2003 . “ Epistemologies of Music Theory .” In Christensen 2003...
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Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 171–183.
Published: 01 April 2021
... dishonorable one that ever lived” (Fétis 1828 : 468n1), or deplore the entire history of the field as “the constant and almost always barren efforts of a vast number of erudite men” (Fétis 1840 : iv)? Did the general public really pack the halls of the Conservatoire for his blockbuster lectures on theory...
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A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in a Complex Age . New York: Continuum. Cogswell, Michael. 1994-95 . “Melodic Organization in Two Solos by Ornette Coleman.” Annual Review of Jazz Studies 7 : 101 -44. Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. 1995 . The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States . New York...
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An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 183–193.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Henry Burnam [email protected] Benjamin Steege . An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought . New Material Histories of Music Series , edited by James Q. Davies and Nicholas Mathew . University of Chicago Press , 2021 : ix + 281 pp. ( $55.00 cloth...
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