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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 283–314.
Published: 01 October 1999
... 8 : 63 –115. SWING AND MOTIVE IN
THREE PERFORMANCES BY
OSCAR PETERSON*
Steve Larson
Oscar Peterson really swings. Whatever their assessment of other as-
pects of his playing, his fans and detractors agree about...
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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 1. The opening motive of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5, op. 67.
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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
Figure 1a. Conceptual model for the category “motive forms of the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony” (Zbikowski 2002 : 47).
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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
Figure 4a. Twenty-seven csegs from the motive family in mm. 1–37 of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
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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 4. A potential new motive from Beethoven Symphony no. 5, op. 67, i, mm. 35–36.
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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 5. A shorter motive in Beethoven Symphony no. 5, op. 67, i, mm. 182–87.
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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
Figure 5b. Contiguous recency-oriented mapping of 〈=–〉 onto the Beethoven motive family tree.
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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
Figure 5c. Mapping of 〈=–〉 onto the Beethoven motive family tree, omitting the middle position.
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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 6. Five-note motive variant in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5, op. 67, i, mm. 39–40, second violin.
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (1): 69–98.
Published: 01 April 2004
... Analysis and Post-Tonal Music.” In Aspects of Schenkerian Theory , ed. David Beach. New Haven: Yale University Press, 153 -86. Benjamin, William E. 1979 . “Ideas of Order in Motivic Music.” Music Theory Spectrum 1 : 23 -34. Benjamin, William E. 1974 . “The Structure of Atonal Music by Allen...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 280–290.
Published: 01 October 2022
...John Y. Lawrence johnyilawrence@gmail.com Brent Auerbach . Musical Motives: A Theory and Method for Analyzing Shape in Music . Oxford University Press , 2021 : 400 pp. ( $99.00 hardcover , $97.99 e-book). Copyright © 2022 by Yale University 2022 Music analysis...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 1. Summary of Auerbach's symbols for representing pitch motives.
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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
Figure 1b. Conceptual model representing Quinn's motivic categorization for his “family M,” showing the hidden category of cardinality.
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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
Figure 5a. Contiguous diachronic (primacy-oriented) mapping of 〈=–〉 onto the Beethoven motive family tree.
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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
Figure 4b. Contour tree and CAS probability matrix representing the twenty-seven members of the Beethoven motive family.
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 143–179.
Published: 01 October 2006
... for the sonorities involved (as defined by Schenkerian analysis), and the interconnection of these sonorities in processes of motivic development. Through this motivic interconnection, the sonorities achieve an ontological status partially independent of their individual linear-contrapuntal environments. Each...
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Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (2): 169–223.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of grammar induction is framed in terms of traditional concerns in music scholarship in order to motivate application of the technique, illustrate its usefulness, and place it in a historical and methodological context within music theory research. Exploring the Rhythm of the
Palestrina Style
A Case...
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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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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (1): 25–56.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Quartet is hardly the only motivation for Schumann’s continuous expositions. Contra Newcomb, conventions of continuous exposition create a compelling musical narrative across the symphony’s three-key design. The presence of tonal polarity in this exposition highlights the need to interpret Schumann’s...
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Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (2): 103–154.
Published: 01 October 2014
.... Part I provides an account of the rules that generate phonological words and phrases in German, the principles that determine the normal placement of stress in words and phrases, and motivations for the abnormal placement of stress. Part II looks at higher-level, facultative structures in prosodic...
