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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 137–143.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Alexander Rehding De Souza Jonathan Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition Oxford University Press , 2017 : xi + 191 pp. ( $44.95 cloth) Copyright © 2020 by Yale University 2020 Works Cited Biers Katherine . 2015 . “The Typewriter’s Truth ”. In Kittler...
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Heather Platt Peter H. Smith Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet Indiana University Press, 2005: ix+325 pp. ($49.95 cloth) 2004 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 2004 Agawu, Kofi. 1997 . “Analyzing Music under...
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 October 2009
... to Performance.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 3 / 2 : 33 –61. ____, ed. 2009 . Victorian Music for English Concertina . Middleton, WI: A-R Editions. Berlioz, Hector. [1855] 1858 . A Treatise upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration . Translated by Mary Cowden Clarke. London: Novello, Ewer...
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in generalized fretboard space. Musical examples in the essay involve guitar, mandolin, banjo, and ukulele, with extended analyses of pieces by Eddie Van Halen and Mark O’Connor. This investigation, with its blend of formalization and performance analysis, is framed by reflections on space, instruments...
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 51–88.
Published: 01 April 2016
... circles of Schumann's large-scale instrumental forms, and the tendency for concerto form to attract less interest among theorists compared to other instrumental genres. Historical grounding for the analysis arises from the value Schumann and members of his circle placed on musical close reading...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and Multiplicity in Diatonic Systems .” Journal of Music Theory 29 , no. 2 : 249 – 70 . De Souza Jonathan . 2017 . Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition . New York : Oxford University Press . Gamer Carlton . 1967 . “ Some Combinatorial Resources of Equal-Tempered Systems...
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 137–162.
Published: 01 April 2009
... be termed the “bluegrass banjo,” which is
a five-string instrument played with three right-hand finger picks. Though
this type of banjo and playing technique are not unique to bluegrass
music, Earl Scruggs’s cultivation of the approach...
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (2): 435–456.
Published: 01 October 2001
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characteristic of sounds generated by it.
As stated earlier, all the material categories chosen by Penderecki for
his timbre system occur among the traditional musical instruments of a
symphonic orchestra. This does not by itself mean, however, that a sym-
phonic orchestra with its traditional set...
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Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 191–234.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Stephen C. Brown Starting in the late 1960s Shostakovich used twelve-tone rows in many of his most significant compositions. These rows usually occur melodically within individual vocal or instrumental parts and function as part of a larger musical fabric that does not otherwise involve twelve-tone...
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (2): 283–291.
Published: 01 October 2020
... discourses and practices as well as musical structure. One such discourse appears in Anatolian music, where virtual agency is regu- larly attributed to the saz (a long-necked lute, often consid- ered the national instrument of Turkey). An article exploring agency and the saz by Eliot Bates (2012) draws...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 159–180.
Published: 01 April 2008
... in medieval thought as both literate and inarticulate, beautiful and melo-
dious yet irrational, Leach uses birdsong as a conceptual instrument, a meta-
phorical lens through which to examine the relationships between nature
and art, sense perception and rational judgment, music and language, oral...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (2): 291–301.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of experimental trials and apparatus,
foregrounded visually by some seventy engravings of research instruments,
anatomical parts, and abstract traces of acoustical events. Rather uniquely
among the motley crew of historical individuals we lump together as “music
theorists,” Helmholtz...
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Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 11–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of different musical instruments, in different registers. Thus, in Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Snowflakes, which Bell analyzes, the high flutes project a different meter than do the low trombones. The dancer maintains her own metric stream, aligning now with one, now with the other, and sometimes with neither...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 262–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Hippolyte Colet, Albert Lavignac, among others. What is impressive about these tests was the students' ability to write in a few hours complex dispositions and fugues over bass lines (or, in the case of chants données, below a melody) without the aid of a musical instrument...
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 April 2008
...,
span but the series of notes can be found
in other modes as well.
164 Musical instruments with The various modes, such as Although Boethius sets a 15-note...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 321–371.
Published: 01 October 2013
... . “ ‘As Wonderful as Star Clusters: Instruments for Gazing at Tonality in Schubert .” 19th-Century Music 22 : 213 – 32 . ———. 2012 . Audacious Euphony: Chromaticism and the Triad’s Second Nature . New York : Oxford University Press . Cone Edward T. 1967 . “ Beyond Analysis .” Perspectives...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 193–243.
Published: 01 October 2013
... of California Press , 2002 . ———. [1949] 2006 . Philosophy of New Music . Translated by Hullot-Kentor Robert . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . ———. 1959 . “ The Instrumentation of Berg’s Early Songs .” In Sound Figures , trans. Livingstone Rodney , 80 – 90 . Stanford...
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 223–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
...? Most importantly, if musicians spend so much time dealing with difficulty, why do theorists not focus more on what musical factors give rise to this difficulty? This article situates difficulty at the intersection of performer, score (and by extension composer), and instrument and conceptualizes...
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 1999
... voice, or mediated by the otherwise inert mech-
anism of an instrument. The interpersonal aspect of music making was
highly charged with the physical—you were in the same room with the
music makers, and the energy of the sound made was an immediate mea-
sure of the energy used by another human being...
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 April 2013
...
“inclination towards programme music,” since the referent of the title was
“abstract enough not to contradict the essence of instrumental music” (1987,
32). To the extent that such plural-form titles retained some vestige of refer-
entiality, it was an oddly reflexive, empty sort of referentiality, one...
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