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Hemiola, funky rhythms, and the bass line's melodic contour. BWV 1043, mvt....
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Example 7. Hemiola, funky rhythms, and the bass line's melodic contour. BWV 1043, mvt. 3, mm. 123–26.
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Fuzzy Family Ties: New Methods for Measuring Familial Similarity between Contours of Variable Cardinality
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 93–128.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Kristen Wallentinsen Abstract Melodic contour is one of a melody's defining characteristics. Music theorists such as Michael Friedmann, Robert Morris, Elizabeth West Marvin and Paul Laprade, and Ian Quinn have developed models for evaluating similarities between contours, but only a few compare...
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On the Prosody of German Lyric Song
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (2): 103–154.
Published: 01 October 2014
...,and he produced Ex. 8 different(correx 7/18/14): emphases by changing the correlation between
the text and the melodic phrase, so that the peak of the melodic contour
coincides with different syllables...
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Musical Techniques in Balanchine's Jazzy Bach Ballet
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 139–169.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Example 7. Hemiola, funky rhythms, and the bass line's melodic contour. BWV 1043, mvt. 3, mm. 123–26. ...
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Normalizing Musical Contour Theory
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 April 2016
... for the Discussion of Contour: Its Application to Schoenberg's ‘Music.’” Journal of Music Theory 29 / 2 : 223 – 48 . Kolinski Mieczyslaw . 1965 . “The Structure of Melodic Movement: A New Method of Analysis.” In Studies in Ethnomusicology , vol. 2 , ed. Kolinski Mieczyslaw , 96 – 120...
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Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 325–374.
Published: 01 October 2021
... rhythm. In later pieces, Music for Eighteen Musicians , The Desert Music , and Sextet , melodic settings of the rhythm suggest different parsings on the basis of register and contour. One possible parsing appears throughout the marimbas in movement 3a of Music for Eighteen Musicians and midway...
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Tonality and Racism
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 April 2024
... William J. , and Hollombe Ava W. 1977 . “ The Perception of Melodies Distorted by Splitting into Several Octaves: Effects of Increasing Proximity and Melodic Contour .” Perception and Psychophysics 21 : 60 – 64 . Everett Walter . 2009 . The Foundations of Rock: From “Blue Suede...
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Flipped, Broken, and Paused Clave : Dancing through Metric Ambiguities in Salsa Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 39–80.
Published: 01 April 2021
... patterns, melodic contours, and harmonic progressions. See, e.g., Gerard 1998 : 54–58. Using the Salsa Rhythm application ( salsabeatmachine.org ), one can hear each component of the salsa rhythm section individually and in various combinations. 23 In a similar vein but on a larger scale, Edgardo...
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Music, Language, and the Brain
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (2): 311–324.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of speech
intonation. Nevertheless, Patel challenges the apparent conclusion (reached
by others) that the mental processing of melody and of speech is therefore
modular. Instead, he proposes the “melodic contour deafness hypothesis,”
which accounts for all relevant results: mTDIs do in fact have...
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MIND AND MUSIC: ON INTENTIONALITY, MUSIC THEORY, AND ANALYSIS
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 231–255.
Published: 01 October 1999
..., that musical things—melodies,
contours, rhythms, meters, and harmonies, for instance—exist, as such,
outside our perception of them. Musical signals (oscillations of air mol-
ecules and the like), even if perceived melodically, possess no inherent
melodic properties of their own. Melody—and by extension...
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Transformational Streams: Unraveling Melodic Processes in Twentieth-Century Motivic Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 69–98.
Published: 01 April 2004
... throughout the first
twelve measures of the piece. Example 11 contains a sketch of the prin-
cipal melodic ideas in this section. As the example shows, G ascends
through B≤ to D in m. 3, forming a triadic contour that arches over the
first three measures. The triadic ascent continues to G5 in m. 5 where...
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Agency and Information Content in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century String-Quartet Expositions
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (1): 87–120.
Published: 01 April 2012
... analyzed. Example 4
illustrates the three musical parameters—a contour interval, a normal melodic
interval, and a rhythmic duration—that are associated with each note in a
line. The melodic interval is the number of diatonic steps by which the note...
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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON STACKED CANON AND RENAISSANCE COMPOSITIONAL Procedure: Gascongne's ISTA EST SPECIOSA AND Forestier's MISSA L'homme Armé
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 73–118.
Published: 01 April 2001
...; the number two is prominent in
the arrangement of the canonic voices in pairs of pitches separated by an octave
(e-e’ and A-a); the canonic time-interval is two tempora, as in Gascongne. Divi-
tis’s opening melodic contour, and more importantly, the unusual closing gesture,
bear striking...
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The Mutable Subject: Tonal and Rhythmic Transformations in Selected Fugues of J. S. Bach
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 April 2014
... for keyboard. It turns out that the subject of this fugue is so marked in rhythm and contour that it seems to motivate—and even demand—its own transformation as the fugue unfolds. One consequence of such transformation is a series of metric shifts from triple hypermeter during expositions to duple hypermeter...
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Galant Recitative Schemas
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 1–61.
Published: 01 April 2015
... characterize in terms of a core vocabulary of fifteen melodic formulas. Appendix 1 presents a roster of these formulas, which captures a unique fingerprint of recitative, distinct from the comparable inventory of homophonic phrase schemas in Robert Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style . These recitative...
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Of Time and Eternity: Reflections on “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 65–76.
Published: 01 April 2006
..., as each
ends with a transposition of the same five-note cadential gesture. The final
phrase presents a climax and summation as it traverses the entire melodic
range in a single impulse.
The solid, highly organized structure of this melody...
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Chromaticism, Form, and Expression in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 76, No. 6
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 41–101.
Published: 01 April 2003
... empha-
sis as the highpoint of many of the melodic contours in the first violin
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Example 7. Haydn, Quartet Op. 76/6, II: Fantasia
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Example 7 (continued)
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Example 7 (continued...
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The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era: 1924–1950
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 236–249.
Published: 01 April 2000
...) and surely inescapable, so is that
of Rodgers’ and Hart’s “My Funny Valentine” to Brahms’s C≥-minor
Intermezzo. In this instance it is almost as though Rodgers left a deliber-
ate clue in the unexampled unison verse, as well as his marks of homage
in the refrain’s initial contour (including its ascent...
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CHALLENGING VIEWS OF SEQUENTIAL Repetition: FROM SATZLEHRE TO MELODIELEHRE
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 127–169.
Published: 01 April 2000
... of what we term modulating melodic se-
quence, with the music shown in the lower staff of Example 1.1 The fol-
lowing words accompany Koch’s illustration: “These types of Transpo-
sition were quite frequently used in older compositions, and to a certain
extent have become obsolete; they are rather...
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Information Flow and Repetition in Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (2): 155–178.
Published: 01 October 2014
... .” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 94/4 : 1953 – 57 . Conklin Darrell Witten Ian . 1995 . “ Multiple Viewpoint Systems for Music Prediction .” Journal of New Music Research 24/1 : 51 – 73 . Cuddy Lola Lunney Carol . 1995 . “ Expectancies Generated by Melodic...
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