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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 57–94.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of events of long-range structural importance such as cadences that provide tonal and formal closure at the deepest level. Metrical Dissonance and Directed
Motion in Paderewski’s Recordings
of Chopin’s Mazurkas
Alan Dodson
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Includes: Supplementary data
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 253–264.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Patrick McCreless Patrick McCreless is professor of music theory in the Department of Music at Yale. His 2010 keynote address to the Society for Music Theory, “Ownership, in Music and Music Theory,” was recently published in Music Theory Online . Malin Yonatan Songs in Motion...
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Published: 01 October 2021
Example 5. Classification of chromatic semitones based on interval of bass motion.
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Published: 01 October 2021
Example 6. Root and bass motion classification and the Guidonian diatonic.
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 25–68.
Published: 01 April 2004
... -52. ____ [as V. Z.]. 1937b . “Zur jüngsten Aufführung des `Don Carlos.'” Der Dreiklang 4-5 : 128 . DEEP-LEVEL PORTRAYALS
OF DIRECTED AND
MISDIRECTED MOTIONS IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY LYRIC SONG
Walter Everett
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 43–88.
Published: 01 April 2011
...-Riemannian L, P, and R) preserve common tones. Sequential enchaining of contextual inversions will generally define simple, straight-line motions within the spaces described in this article. The musical motions of works by Webern, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky are measured against the systematic standard...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 219–249.
Published: 01 October 2008
... voice leading with motion through Fourier space. Voice-leading displacements of each of the six interval classes can be associated with specific changes of position in each of the six Fourier spaces for twelve-tone equal temperament. Likewise, displacement spaces, showing all of the sets that can...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Mari Romarheim Haugen Abstract This article studies the rhythm of Norwegian telespringar , a tradition with an intimate relationship between music and dance that features a nonisochronous meter; that is, the durations between adjacent beats are unequal. A motion-capture study of a fiddler and dance...
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in Flipped, Broken, and Paused Clave : Dancing through Metric Ambiguities in Salsa Music
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 1. Footwork pattern for the on-1 salsa basic (single dancer, bird's-eye perspective on floor). Dark footprints = active feet (motion); light footprints = inactive feet (no motion). This footwork is from the follow's perspective. To obtain the lead's footwork, switch the two temporal
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 137–162.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Joti Rockwell Drawing ideas from transformational theory and rhythm and meter theory, this study examines bluegrass banjo music in terms of rhythm and motions of the human hand. It begins by presenting a mathematical model of the five-string banjo characterizing the gestural permutations that give...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 239–285.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Example 5. Classification of chromatic semitones based on interval of bass motion. ...
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 273–320.
Published: 01 October 2015
... and the emergence of a group structure, whose generators—named transpositio and transformatio —are also characteristic musical motions and relations. The proposed analytical methodology is probed in a couple of short pieces of Bartók's Mikrokosmos and in the third movement of his Piano Sonata. The article argues...
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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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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 4.6. A reduction of mm. 4–6 of Rite of Spring , along with two recompositions that shift the parallel motion to other pairs of voices. This moves the position of the gapped quartal voicings.
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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
the chord's closest notes, moving them in exact contrary motion by the smallest possible distance.
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in Investigating Music-Dance Relationships: A Case Study of Norwegian Telespringar
> Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 3. (a) A simplified transcription of “ Sud-Kåsen ” and plots showing (b) the amplitude waveform, (c) the audio spectrogram, (d) bowing movements, and (e) the vertical motion of the fiddler's feet over four measures. The foot stamping follows a long-medium-short duration pattern
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (2): 323–379.
Published: 01 October 2000
... such phe-
nomena as cause and effect, motion, force, energy, and balance through
the ways in which they play a part in our own goal-directed actions. This
learning is captured in the form of patterns that Johnson calls image
schemas. According to Johnson, we use image schemas to make sense of
our...
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Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (2): 451–485.
Published: 01 October 2000
..., the space between the first two background
Stufen, can be filled in (Schenker 1979, 29–31 and Figure 14). This inner
subdivision of the space between I and V greatly affects the tonal orga-
nization of music and Schenker suggests that it also influences the form.
He demonstrates that this motion may...
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 227–254.
Published: 01 October 2009
... to be a broad project: modeling
“directed measurement, distance, or motion” in an unspecified range of
musical spaces. Lewin illustrates this general ambition with an equally general
graph—the simple arrow or vector shown in Figure 1. This diagram, he writes,
“shows two points s and t...
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Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 April 2023
... body motion, or anticipating the music's sonic motion. Kozak describes how kinesthetic knowledge is often tacitly acquired by exploring the world through movement rather than explicitly taught (133), and its use is often governed by social conventions and contexts (132). A piece of kinesthetic...
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