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Making a Virtue of Necessity: Schenker and Kantian Teleology
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 59–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Bryan J. Parkhurst Schenker has a puzzling and controversial habit of claiming that musical works must be as they are and that their features are somehow necessary . I argue that Schenker's necessitarianism becomes comprehensible if it is recognized as an outgrowth of his methodological organicism...
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Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (1): 89–95.
Published: 01 April 2016
... William Kramer Richard Puffett Derrick Rothgeb John Siegel Hedi , edited by Drabkin William . 3 vols . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Snarrenberg Robert . 1994 . “Competing Myths: The American Abandonment of Schenker's Organicism.” In Theory, Analysis...
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August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 October 2011
... of “the energetic organicism-model” (as opposed to an earlier
“morphological organicism-model”) in Lotte Thaler’s dissertation Organische
Form in der Musiktheorie des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts (1984), which
Rothfarb does not mention. Schäfke’s conception...
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Cycles in Webern’s Late Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 165–204.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Severine . 1993 . “Schoenberg and Goethe: Organicism and Analysis .” In Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past , edited by Hatch Christopher Bernstein David , 409 – 33 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Perle George . 1977 . “ Berg’s Master Array of the Interval...
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The Type 2 Sonata in the Nineteenth Century: Two Case Studies from Mendelssohn and Dvořák
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Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 103–138.
Published: 01 April 2019
... analisi e teoria musicale 21 , no. 2 : 129 – 51 . Mendelssohn Felix . 1976 . Octet for Strings, opus 20: A Facsimile of the Holograph in the Whittall Foundation Collection . Washington, DC : Library of Congress . Montgomery David L. 1992 . “ The Myth of Organicism: From Bad...
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 162–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... that “their works are in no way pieced together, but rather, in the
manner of the free fantasy, sketched out spontaneously and brought up
from a concealed Urgrund ” (I, 19). In the essay “On Organicism in
Sonata Form,” he observes that “only creativity based on improvisation
can vouchsafe the unity...
View articletitled, The Masterwork in Music: A Yearbook , 3 Vols. Heinrich Schenker Edited by William Drabkin Translated by Ian Bent, Alfred Clayton, William Drabkin, Richard Kramer, Derrick Puffet, John Rothgeb, and Hedi Siegel Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vols. 5, 8, and 10 Ian Bent, General Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1996, 1997
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for article titled, The Masterwork in Music: A Yearbook , 3 Vols. Heinrich Schenker Edited by William Drabkin Translated by Ian Bent, Alfred Clayton, William Drabkin, Richard Kramer, Derrick Puffet, John Rothgeb, and Hedi Siegel Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vols. 5, 8, and 10 Ian Bent, General Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1996, 1997
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Enlightenment Aspirations of Progress in Eighteenth-Century German Theory
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (2): 273–304.
Published: 01 October 2003
... -58. ____. 1993a . “Schenker's Organicism Reexamined.” Intégral 7 : 82 -118. ____. 1993b . Review of Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology, by Leonard Meyer. Journal of the American Musicological Society 46/3 : 469 -75. ____. 1994 . Review of Wordless Rhetoric: Musical...
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Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance by Jeffrey Swinkin
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 155–164.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and Freudian thinking in his analytical case studies would have been
welcome. (The influence from Goethe is comparatively more self-evident,
since organicism is a well-known aspect of Schenkerian analysis.)
More important, a concluding chapter would have afforded...
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Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vol. 9 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 200 Pp.
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 176–190.
Published: 01 April 2001
...), and in their functions.
12. Counterpoint, Book II, ed. and trans. John Rothgeb and Jürgen Thym (New York:
Schirmer Books, 1987), xviii. All bracketed interpolations are by the translators.
13. Ibid.
14. We know, for example, that Schenker was acquainted with Mach; see Korsyn,
“Schenker’s Organicism...
View articletitled, Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vol. 9 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 200 Pp.
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Schenker's Interpretive Practice Robert Snarrenberg Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vol. 11 New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 Xxiii, 175 Pp.
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 190–204.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Collection
and JC for Jonas Collection).
9. Alterman, 79.
10. I am referring to Robert Snarrenberg, “Competing Myths: The American Aban-
donment of Schenker’s Organicism,” in Anthony Pople, ed., Theory, Analysis and
Meaning in Music (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994...
View articletitled, Schenker's Interpretive Practice Robert Snarrenberg Studies in Music Theory and Analysis Vol. 11 New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997 Xxiii, 175 Pp.
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Schenker and Schoenberg on the Will of the Tone
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Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 89–146.
Published: 01 April 2011
...: The American Abandonment of Schenker's Organicism. '' In Theory, Analysis, and Meaning in Music , ed. Pople Anthony , 29 – 56 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . ———. 1997 . Schenker's Interpretive Practice . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Spitzer Michael . 2003...
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Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea
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Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (2): 263–279.
Published: 01 October 2016
... (in pitch space), is plausibly
Among other things, it clarifies the relation between the inferred from Schoenberg’s naming both inversion and ret-
musical idea, organicism, and closure (7–8). rogression as “mirror operations” (see Schoenberg 1975,
214–45...
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The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 433–449.
Published: 01 October 2013
... musical intentions.
throughout his book (such as the life-giving force his oppo-
Of course, Boulez’s own thinly veiled brand of organicism
sitions breathe into Boulez’s otherwise “deterministic”
is both less...
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How the Triad Took (a) Root
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Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 43–62.
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Armstrong Charles I. 2003 . Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife . Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan . Berton Henri-Montan . [ 1807 ]. Arbre généalogique des accords . Paris : Mme Duhan et Cie . Busby Thomas . 1806 . A Complete Dictionary of Music...
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Journal of Music Theory over the Years: Content Analysis of the Articles and Related Aspects
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 25–63.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... Journal of Music Theory 12/2 : 164 –83. Schenker, Heinrich. [1935] 1979 . Free Composition . Revised and edited by Oswald Jonas. Translated by Ernst Oster. New York: Longman. Schenker, Heinrich. [1926] 1996 . “On Organicism in Sonata Form.” In The Masterwork in Music , vol. 2 , ed. William...
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On the Nature of Enlargement
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (1): 31–71.
Published: 01 April 2001
... musical
object can develop into a larger entity of considerable structural and
expressive consequence. Enlargement is therefore one of the more com-
pelling types of motivic association. Theorists have long been fascinated
with the aspect of organicism that relates the small to the large...
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Action and Agency Revisited
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 321–371.
Published: 01 October 2013
... : Cambridge University Press . Solie Ruth . 1980 . “ The Living Work: Organicism and Music Analysis .” 19th-Century Music 4 : 147 – 56 . Straus Joseph N. 2003 . “ Uniformity, Balance, and Smoothness in Atonal Voice Leading .” Music Theory Spectrum 25 : 305 – 52 Tarasti...
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Béla Bartók's Evolution of Tonal Resources
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Journal of Music Theory (2017) 61 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 April 2017
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organicism into the more explicitly evolutionary language of the late nine-
teenth century. Figure 9 registers the next step in Bähr’s extension, in which
each pair of lowercase perfect-fifth-related pitches supports both a major and
a minor triad. Figure 10 gives...
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Ironic Narrative, Ironic Reading
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 95–136.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Stephen Pepper’s categories
for world views (formism, mechanicism, organicism, and
contextualism) and onto Karl Mannheim’s categories of ide-
ology (anarchist, radical, conservative, liberal).
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undesirable order, which her victory transforms...
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Associative Sets, Categories, and Music Analysis
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (2): 147–218.
Published: 01 October 2004
... level as fully as possible” (Jones 2000,
20–21). His description of “organicism” goes further: here, “the ‘parts’
do not exhibit all their properties independently of the ‘whole,’ and so
knowledge of the whole is necessary to understand the parts” (21). Ecol-
ogists Loehle and Pechmann identify...
