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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 137–143.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Alexander Rehding 137 Journal of Music Theory 64:1, April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00222909-8033469 © 2020 by Yale University Jonathan De Souza Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition Oxford University Press, 2017: xi + 191 pp. ($44.95 cloth) Alexander Rehding Instrumentalists are cyborgs...
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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 (2009) 53 (1): 137–162.
Published: 01 April 2009
... transformational theory and rhythm and meter theory, this study examines blue-
grass 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 rise to the instrument’s rhythmic...
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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 (1): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., Mexican-born and Los Angeles based tuning theorist Ervin M. Wilson (1928 2016) has always cut somewhat of an enig- matic figure. He never composed any music or published any formal aca- demic work, yet his presence nevertheless looms large in the world of tuning and instrument design, and in rather...
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (2): 435–456.
Published: 01 October 2001
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in the construction of the musical instruments and accessories of the tra-
ditional symphonic orchestra: metal, wood, leather, felt, and hair.3 These
materials can serve as both vibrators and inciters. Yet, while the role of
inciter can be played by any of the listed materials, the vibrator can be
only a metal...
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Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 194–199.
Published: 01 April 2024
... immediately, leading to unexpected and lasting effects within and between musical communities, as Gribenski persuasively demonstrates. The archive material discussed in the book ranges widely, including instruments and technologies, such as tuning forks; correspondence between various pitch diplomats...
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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 (2024) 68 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... 5 This experience of sweetness was not only encouraged by the sensuously rich sonic palate of this repertoire but was also culturally learned and compositionally manipulatable. It was partially generated by a musical topic, the vocal serenade. The serenade's stylized instrumental conventions...
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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
... conservatory enabled musicians to achieve high and innovative artistic results. 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
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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
.../mani_mono_tom_de_cock.html (accessed February 26 , 2021 ). De Souza Jonathan . 2017 . Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition . New York : Oxford University Press . Dipert Randall R. 1980 . “ The Composer's Intentions: An Examination of Their Relevance for Performance .” Musical...
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