Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 230
Search Results for performance analysis
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance by Jeffrey Swinkin
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 155–164.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Edward Klorman Swinkin Jeffrey , Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance , University of Rochester Press , 2016 : vii + 260 pp. ( $95.00 cloth) Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Works Cited Austin J. L. 1962 . How to Do Things...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Performative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Analysis</span>: Reimagining Music Theory for <span class="search-highlight">Performance</span> by Jeffrey Swinkin
View
PDF
for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Performative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Analysis</span>: Reimagining Music Theory for <span class="search-highlight">Performance</span> by Jeffrey Swinkin
Journal Article
Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 129–134.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Trevor Bača [email protected] Daphne Leong . Performing Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance . Oxford University Press , 2019 : 432 pp. ( $69.00 cloth). Copyright © 2022 by Yale University 2022 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN music analysis centers...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Performing</span> Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in <span class="search-highlight">Analysis</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Performance</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Performing</span> Knowledge: Twentieth-Century Music in <span class="search-highlight">Analysis</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Performance</span>
Journal Article
Metrical Dissonance and Directed Motion in Paderewski's Recordings of Chopin's Mazurkas
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (1): 57–94.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of metrical dissonance but is also informed by William Caplin's theory of formal functions, by Robert Philip's categorization scheme for tempo rubato in early recordings, and by research in meter perception and empirical performance analysis. Several addenda to Krebs's taxonomy of metrical consonance...
View articletitled, Metrical Dissonance and Directed Motion in Paderewski's Recordings of Chopin's Mazurkas
View
PDF
for article titled, Metrical Dissonance and Directed Motion in Paderewski's Recordings of Chopin's Mazurkas
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Fretboard Transformations
Available to Purchase
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...
Image
Modification of Lowe's (2003) schema of interpretation as mediator between ...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 October 2022
Figure 1. Modification of Lowe's (2003) schema of interpretation as mediator between analysis and performance.
More
Journal Article
Interpretive Difficulty and Emergent Structure in Contemporary Music
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 223–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Figure 1. Modification of Lowe's (2003) schema of interpretation as mediator between analysis and performance. ...
FIGURES
| View All (17)
Journal Article
Orbiting: Wayne Shorter's Ever-Expanding Circles
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (2): 287–314.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the original performance's connection to the phenomenon of “circular compositions” as defined by jazz scholars (Waters et al. 2016), arguing that “Orbits” suggests a broader interpretation of the circular principle. Then, analysis and transcription of twenty-first-century performances show how Shorter and his...
FIGURES
| View All (22)
Journal Article
Showing Off: Variation in the Display Episodes of Mozart's Piano Concertos
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 181–218.
Published: 01 October 2008
... “display episodes”—appear to highlight performative prowess at the expense of compositional invention. As such, beyond an acknowledgment of the appropriateness of stock passagework at this point, analysis can have little to say: the episodes are either self-evidently simple or transparent to theoretical...
Journal Article
Improvisation and Collaboration in Anthony Braxton’s Composition 76
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 October 2018
... recordings illustrate the strategies that the performers use to realize Braxton’s complex score, uncovering the structure of a composition previously thought to be resistant to analysis. The article also sheds light on the diverse influences that can be seen in the graphic score—and heard in the performances...
Journal Article
Mersenne and the Art of Delivery
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of Mersenne’s theorization is the notion that both musical performance and oratorical delivery share their foundations in the physical world of sound channeled through the vibrating vocal apparatus of the human body. Delivery is thus in principle amenable to the physical analysis that Mersenne so valued...
Journal Article
Music Theory Pedagogy in the Nineteenth Century: Comparing Traditions of Three European Conservatories
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2022
...” and that it “helped instill analysis and understanding of musical works as prerequisites for performing them successfully” (81). I am not convinced it is appropriate to define this tradition as primarily focusing on repertoire and analysis, and a somewhat distorted picture of it emerges as a consequence of his...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Benjamin Britten's Musical Characterization of the Madwoman in Curlew River
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Stanley Ralph Fink Abstract This article focuses on the musical depiction of madness in Benjamin Britten's parable for church performance, Curlew River . The article demonstrates that Britten transforms motives by chromatic (modulo-12) transposition and inversion when associating them...
FIGURES
| View All (13)
Journal Article
In the Process of Becoming: Analytical and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 151–158.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and 5 reflect upon the
relationship between analysis and performance with reference to Beethoven’s
“Bridgetower” sonata (aka the “Kreutzer”) and Schubert’s Piano Sonata in
A minor, D. 845, and advocate recourse to the experiential input of perform-
ers when confronting the thematic and structural...
Journal Article
Musical Techniques in Balanchine's Jazzy Bach Ballet
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 139–169.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in various guises across all three movements of the concerto. In the numerous varied presentations of the piqué arabesque in this movement, I see Balanchine performing his identity not only as a musician/artisan but also as a new American; he had just received his citizenship in 1939. In her analysis...
FIGURES
| View All (15)
Journal Article
Performance Spaces for Improvised and Notated Music
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 April 2023
... introduced in recent scholarship in the subdisciplines of performance analysis and critical improvisation studies (see, e.g., Cook 2014 ; Lewis and Piekut 2016 ). To be sure, the study of performance presents unique challenges that music theory scholarship has historically eschewed in favor of score-based...
FIGURES
| View All (28)
Journal Article
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 2007
... research focuses on the analysis of multimedia performance and the social implications of improvisatory practices. He is also a bassist, improviser, composer, and recording artist. Al-Zand, Karim. 2005 . “Improvisation as Continually Juggled Priorities: Julian `Cannonball' Adderley's `Straight...
Journal Article
SWING AND MOTIVE IN THREE PERFORMANCES BY OSCAR PETERSON
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (2): 283–314.
Published: 01 October 1999
...; Cox
1999; Guck 1981, 1991; Johnson 1987; Kassler 1991; Lakoff and John-
son 1980, 1999).
Looking at jazz performances along these lines can help us understand
something about “swing.” Indeed, a little reflection about the physical
experience of swinging can give us clues for musical analysis...
Journal Article
Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (2): 419–431.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Jay Rahn Jay Rahn is professor of music at York University, where he teaches courses on world music as well as theory, analysis, and cognition. Best known for his theory for all music, Rahn is currently completing a book-length study of musical traditions in East Africa, Southeast Asia...
Journal Article
Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (2): 253–264.
Published: 01 October 2011
... . Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Stein Deborah J. Spillman Robert . 1996 . Poetry into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Thym Jürgen , ed. 2010...
Journal Article
Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM
Available to Purchase
Journal of Music Theory (2024) 68 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., in 1987. Steinbeck analyzes a 1995 performance. To get a sense of Steinbeck's approach, let's dip into the first analysis in the book, on Roscoe Mitchell 1966 track “Ornette.” Mitchell's debut album Sound features a sextet consisting of saxophonists Mitchell and Maurice McIntyre, trumpeter Lester...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
1
