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Segmentation in Music: Generalizing a Piece-Sensitive Approach

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David S. Lefkowitz, Kristin Taavola
Journal of Music Theory (2000) 44 (1): 171–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3090673
Published: 01 April 2000
... Scaling of Simultaneous Wind Instrument Timbres.” Music Perception 8 (4): 369 -404. Lefkowitz, David S. 1997 . “Perspectives on Order, Disorder, Combinatoriality, and Tonality in Schoenberg's Opus 33a and 33b Piano Pieces.” Intégral 11 : 1 -68. Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray Jackendoff. 1983...
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Figure 9.2. Webern's op. 7/3. A. The accompanimental collections used in the piece. B. The lyrical piano melody. In the “transp. combination” row the letters A, B, C, etc., refer to the numbers 10, 11, 12, etc.

Webern's op. 7/3. A . The accompanimental collections used in the piece. ...

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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles > Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 9.2. Webern's op. 7/3. A . The accompanimental collections used in the piece. B . The lyrical piano melody. In the “transp. combination” row the letters A, B, C, etc., refer to the numbers 10, 11, 12, etc. More
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Example 4. Score and graph of New Piece by Earle Brown. Copyright © 1971 by Henry Litolff's Verlag. Permission by C. F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved.

Score and graph of New Piece by Earle Brown. Copyright © 1971 by Henry Li...

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in Performance Spaces for Improvised and Notated Music > Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 April 2023
Example 4. Score and graph of New Piece by Earle Brown. Copyright © 1971 by Henry Litolff's Verlag. Permission by C. F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved. More
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Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music

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Philip Rupprecht
Journal of Music Theory (2022) 66 (2): 291–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9930962
Published: 01 October 2022
... 2012 ; and readings of pop and classical song in BaileyShea 2021 . 1 For revisionist perspectives on tonal tradition, see two recent edited volumes: Wörner, Scheideler, and Rupprecht 2012 and 2017 . With Pieces of Tradition , Harrison makes several crucial contributions...
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Figure 4. The rhythms of first two parts of Music for Pieces of Wood (a and b) and a different truncation of the first rhythm (c)

The rhythms of first two parts of Music for Pieces of Wood (a and b) and ...

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in Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style > Journal of Music Theory
Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 4. The rhythms of first two parts of Music for Pieces of Wood (a and b) and a different truncation of the first rhythm (c). More
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Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke , D. 946, Nos. 1 and 2, and the Case of the Crossed-Out C Section

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René Rusch
Journal of Music Theory (2012) 56 (1): 53–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1546967
Published: 01 April 2012
...–A) in the first piano piece. Scholars have noted this revision, acknowledging Brahms’s role as the anonymous editor of these pieces. Yet why Schubert crossed out this entire section in the manuscript remains unanswered. Focusing on the first two Klavierstücke , since both occur within the same manuscript...
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Maria Schneider’s Forms: Norms and Deviations in a Contemporary Jazz Corpus

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Ben Geyer
Journal of Music Theory (2019) 63 (1): 35–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-7320462
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the corpus data summarizes the sectional makeup of each of the twenty-two normative pieces. Formal and hermeneutical accounts of three deviational pieces demonstrate the flexibility and expressive potential of the system. A retrofit of the formal framework onto thirteen notable big-band arrangements...
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Schenker and Schoenberg on the Will of the Tone

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Matthew Arndt
Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 89–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1219205
Published: 01 April 2011
... idea, which the artist imitates in a piece of music as a manifestation or development of one particular tone by means of the motive and the key. Schenker and Schoenberg further conceive of a piece as a picture of the tone and a statement about the tone. This analysis reveals that Schenker's...
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Periodicity-Based Descriptions of Rhythms and Steve Reich's Rhythmic Style

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Jason Yust
Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (2): 325–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9143211
Published: 01 October 2021
...Figure 4. The rhythms of first two parts of Music for Pieces of Wood (a and b) and a different truncation of the first rhythm (c). ...
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Lutosławski's Mid-Century Harmony: Reconceptualizing Chordal Space in the Five Iłłakowicz Songs

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José Oliveira Martins
Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (2): 209–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10699703
Published: 01 October 2023
... as pitches in register. The analytical focus is on Lutosławski's harmony of the mid- to late fifties, attending in particular to the Five Iłłakowicz Songs , the composer's inaugural effort in the use of vertical aggregates. Lutosławski's chordal space in these pieces is interpreted through a series of cyclic...
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The Realization of Partimenti: An Introduction

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Giorgio Sanguinetti
Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (1): 51–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-023
Published: 01 April 2007
...Giorgio Sanguinetti A partimento is a linear guide for the improvisation of a keyboard piece. Partimenti were developed for the training of composers in the conservatories of Naples during the eighteenth century. They contain all the information needed for the realization of complete pieces...
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Metrical Displacement and Metrically Dissonant Hemiolas

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Channan Willner
Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 87–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2017115
Published: 01 April 2013
... of the piece or reset the durational clocks of the piece for proper cadential closure. Examples range from Handel’s keyboard suites and Concerti Grossi, op. 6, as well as Bach’s English Suites, to Couperin’s B-minor Passacaille and Brahms’s Capriccio, op. 76/2. Channan Willner is acquisitions librarian...
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Bartók's Polymodality: The Dasian and Other Affinity Spaces

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José Oliveira Martins
Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 273–320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-3136020
Published: 01 October 2015
... and the emergence of a group structure, whose generators—named transpositio and transformatio —are also characteristic musical motions and relations. The proposed analytical methodology is probed in a couple of short pieces of Bartók's Mikrokosmos and in the third movement of his Piano Sonata. The article argues...
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Fretboard Transformations

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Jonathan De Souza
Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 1–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-4450624
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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Monotonality and Scalar Modulation in Sibelius’s Tapiola

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Benedict Taylor
Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 85–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-4450648
Published: 01 April 2018
...Benedict Taylor Sibelius’s late tone poem Tapiola is routinely held up as an exceptional example of a piece that is both monothematic and monotonal. Nevertheless, the broader notion of tonality transmitted by Tapiola invites deeper investigation, since tonality by the early twentieth century...
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Elliott Carter and Musical Silence: Intermittences and “Sound and Silence in Time”

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Guy Capuzzo
Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 37–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-8033420
Published: 01 April 2020
...Guy Capuzzo This article examines Elliott Carter’s most extensive forays into the theory and practice of musical silence: the 2005 composition Intermittences and the 1957 lecture “Sound and Silence in Time: A Contemporary Approach to the Elements of Music.” Taken together, the piece and the lecture...
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Toward a Predictive Theory of Theme Types

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John Y. Lawrence
Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 1–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-8033408
Published: 01 April 2020
...John Y. Lawrence Listener expectations are a fundamental consideration in formal analysis, common to cognitive and hermeneutic approaches alike. Such approaches maintain that listeners use statistical regularities of musical style to predict where a piece of music is going and then assess what...
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Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Music

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John Roeder
Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1219187
Published: 01 April 2011
... are demonstrated by attributing the melodic and harmonic structures of complete pieces— Fratres, Passio , and The Beatitudes —to the interaction of a very small set of transformations. This representation reveals similarities of form as well as of process among them. It also shows how Pärt's signature harmonic...
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Feinting Repeats, Repeating Feints: The Developmental “Double Return” in Brahms and Sonata Theory Typology

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Benedict Taylor
Journal of Music Theory (2023) 67 (1): 71–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10232069
Published: 01 April 2023
... with developmental double return used as opening movements. In these cases sonata theory is left classifying these designs as a conventional type 3 sonata with an expositional repeat feint. There are some serious problems, however, with this interpretation. First is the sheer number of pieces in which this double...
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Of Time and Eternity: Reflections on “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”

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William Renwick
Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 65–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2008-007
Published: 01 April 2006
... a multifaceted perspective on time suggested by the change of year. In particular, the chromatic fourth becomes a tonality-defining element that contrasts the essentially diatonic melody. I suggest that the tonal and motivic balances in the piece reflect the duality of regret for the past and hope for the future...
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