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The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 356–368.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . Rabinovitch Gilad . 2019b . “ Unplayed Galant Melodies, the Ubiquity of the Rarest Interval, and the Heyday of the Major Mode .” Empirical Musicology Review 14 , nos. 3–4 : 90 – 134 . Rabinovitch Gilad . 2020 . “ Hidden Polyphony, Linear Hierarchy, and Scale-Degree Associations in Galant...
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Inventing a Melody with Harmony: Tonal Potential and Bach's “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 April 2006
...-Five Organ Chorals . Edited by Albert Riemenschneider. Bryn Mawr, PA: O. Ditson. Bach, Johann Sebastian. 1941 . 371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass . Edited by Albert Riemenschneider. New York: G. Schirmer. Bach, Johann Sebastian. [1958–1985] 1999 . J. S. Bach...
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in Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 20. The initial melody of Vermont Counterpoint (a) and its spectrum (b).
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in Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 27. Spectra of the canons and reduced melody in Sextet ii.
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in Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 30. The basic melody of Electric Counterpoint ii (a) and its spectrum with that of the canon entries (b).
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in Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 32. Melody for the “Difficult” canon from The Desert Music , reh. 184 (a), and its spectrum and that of the canon entries (b).
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The sixteen melodies of Quinn’s melody family, labeled “M,” from Steve Reic...
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in Fuzzy Family Ties: New Methods for Measuring Familial Similarity between Contours of Variable Cardinality
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2022
Example 2. The sixteen melodies of Quinn’s melody family, labeled “M,” from Steve Reich’s Desert Music, iii (Quinn 1997 : 234).
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in Fuzzy Family Ties: New Methods for Measuring Familial Similarity between Contours of Variable Cardinality
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2022
Example 3. Cardinality variants of melody M 4a from Example 2 .
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in Fuzzy Family Ties: New Methods for Measuring Familial Similarity between Contours of Variable Cardinality
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2022
Example 7. The melody M 1 in the flutes (and first violins), showing the T 2 and T 4 phasing in Reich's Desert Music , iii, rehearsal 122.
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The two forms of the melody are produced by the same algorithm, interchangi...
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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 3.2. The two forms of the melody are produced by the same algorithm, interchanging the terms third-step trichord and cluster .
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Twelve-Tone Rows and Aggregate Melodies in the Music of Shostakovich
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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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The Serenade Topic, the Serenade Construction, and the Creation of Amorous Sweetness in Ottocento Opera
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Gioachino Rossini's music to lusciously ripe fruit and to sexual arousal. Adolf Bernhard Marx found a concert of Mercadante arias to leave the bitter “aftertaste of lots of sugar.” And August Wilhelm Ambros compared Rossini's melodies to gazing into the eyes of a Titian nude. This article proposes...
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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
...William Renwick This essay discusses tonal ambiguity in the chorale melody “Das alte Jahr” and suggests a poetic interpretation of Bach's chorale. Expressive elements such as the passus duriusculus , the sospiro , and pervasive chromaticism are woven into a radical tonal plan that reflects...
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Modal Spelled Pitch Class, La-Minor Solfège, and Schubert’s Third Relations
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 241–281.
Published: 01 October 2020
... pitch class transpositions show the scales and melodies that prolong third-related harmonies also participate in their own third relations. Copyright © 2020 by Yale University 2020 diatonic modes pitch class Franz Schubert solfège solmization I am grateful to Julian Hook for his...
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Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 April 2011
... of melody and harmony and define the field of possibilities in which each melodic/harmonic change takes place—a “space” in which the changes can be heard as meaningful in relation both to themselves and to the text. Overall, these results suggest how the ostensibly mechanical melodic and harmonic processes...
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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
...Example 2. The sixteen melodies of Quinn’s melody family, labeled “M,” from Steve Reich’s Desert Music, iii (Quinn 1997 : 234). ...
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in Lutosławski's Mid-Century Harmony: Reconceptualizing Chordal Space in the Five Iłłakowicz Songs
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2023
Example 3. Lutosławski's “Rycerze,” Iłłakowicz Songs : transformation of harmonic/scalar context for the note C5 in the voice melody (mm. 162, 169).
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in Fuzzy Family Ties: New Methods for Measuring Familial Similarity between Contours of Variable Cardinality
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2022
Example 9. Transition from the M 7 phasing region to M 8 , showing similarities of motions between melodies in Reich's Desert Music , iii, rehearsals 230 and 232.
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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
... of Kentucky and co-founding editor of the online journal Analytical Approaches to World Music . © 2016 by Yale University 2016 contour pitch melody rhythm normalization analytical notation Works Cited Bor Mustafa . 2009 . “Contour Reduction Algorithms: A Theory of Pitch...
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Interpreting Hucbald on Mode
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 April 2008
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