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in Lyric Forms as “Performed” Speech in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre : A Study of Operatic Convention in Wagnerian Music Drama
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Published: 01 October 2021
Example 7. Verdi, Simon Boccanegra , Prelude: Fiesco, “Il lacerato spirito.”
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( top ) Measure 4 of Ruth Crawford Seeger's Prelude no. 9 balances sevenths...
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in Approximate Set Theory: Chord Categories, Voicings, and Interval Cycles
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 3.3. ( top ) Measure 4 of Ruth Crawford Seeger's Prelude no. 9 balances sevenths in the right hand against seconds in the left, their approximate complements. ( bottom ) Measure 13 juxtaposes sevenths and quintic chords in the right hand against quartal and quintic chords in the left.
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in Violin Fingerboard Space: Intervallic Mappings from Instrumental Space to Pitch Space
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Published: 01 October 2024
Figure 1. J. S. Bach, Suite No. 1 for Cello in G major, BWV 1007, Prelude, m. 1.
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Inventing a Melody with Harmony: Tonal Potential and Bach's “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Marianne Kielian-Gilbert Intensely chromatic and tonally open, Bach's chorale prelude “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist,” BWV 614, suggests different contexts of reception “as-music-analysis.” I imagine a reception of the prelude as liturgical-musical contemplation and religious experience. I construe...
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Key Structure in “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 April 2006
...David Temperley My discussion of Bach's chorale prelude “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist” centers on its key structure: the hierarchical arrangement of keys in the piece and the relationships between them. In the course of this discussion, I make a number of observations about the nature of key...
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You're There and You're Not There: Musical Borrowing and Cavell's “Way”
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Journal of Music Theory (2010) 54 (1): 91–105.
Published: 01 April 2010
... Friedman borrowing Bach in Gavotte (1948); Cavell borrowing Emerson versus Berio borrowing Mahler in Sinfonia (1960); and Cavell borrowing Derrida reading Austin versus Richard Beaudoin borrowing Martha Argerich reading Chopin in Étude d'un prélude IV—Black Wires (2009). Cavell's theories of the voice...
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Debussy: The Origins of a Method
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Journal of Music Theory (2004) 48 (2): 295–324.
Published: 01 October 2004
... piano preludes (“Ondine” and “Brouillards,” both from Book
2). Aside from showing that Stravinsky was not the first composer to
employ this formal model, these analyses show that Cone’s theory is eas-
ily adaptable to the unique demands of a work, for Debussy’s use of strat-
ified form is in some...
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Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites: An Analytical Study
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Journal of Music Theory (2005) 49 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 April 2005
... it.
In addressing the two complete compositions analyzed in part II, Beach
for the first time deals with provenance. In chapter 5, on the keyboard
suite BWV818a, we are told that the work exists in two largely identical
versions, except that the one chosen contains a prelude and substitutes a
variant...
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On Voice Exchanges
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Journal of Music Theory (2009) 53 (2): 191–226.
Published: 01 October 2009
...: Cambridge University Press. DeLong, Kenneth. 1991 . “Roads Taken and Retaken: Foreground Ambiguity in Chopin's Prelude in A-flat, op. 28, no. 17.” Canadian University Music Review 11 / 1 : 34 –49. Eigeldinger, Jean-Jacques. 1986 . Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils . New York...
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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
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practice of using the four master tropes to read the implicit ideologies behind
published analyses of Chopin’s preludes. Korsyn’s reading of these analyses
reminds us that irony is related to part/part relationships. He argues, for
example, that one possible perspective on Chopin’s preludes...
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Are There Two Tonal Practices in Nineteenth-Century Music?
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (1): 135–163.
Published: 01 April 1999
... along with this point, the Tristan analy-
sis offered does little to support it—at least not for the reasons given. It
treats the return of material from both the prelude and “Liebestod” at the
close of Act III, where, according to Kinderman, one of the music drama’s
principal dramatic issues...
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Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach
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Journal of Music Theory (2001) 45 (2): 483–487.
Published: 01 October 2001
..., “Associative Harmony: The Reciprocity of Ideas in
Musical Space,” in In Theory Only, vol. 10, no.1–2 (September 1987): 31–64, Carl
Schachter, “The Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4: autograph sources and inter-
pretation,” in Chopin Studies 2, ed. John Rink and Jim Samson (Cambridge: Cam...
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Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music
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Journal of Music Theory (2013) 57 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 April 2013
... and structural high points rarely coincide.
The author discusses expressive high points in Schubert’s “An die Musik,”
Chopin’s Prelude in C, op. 28/1, Wagner’s Tristan Prelude, and even passages
from Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (i) and Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion
and Celesta (i). The author...
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Schenker's Octave Lines Reconsidered
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Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (1): 101–133.
Published: 01 April 1999
... similar subdominant returns,
and some of these may be based upon octave lines. Two more Bach ex-
amples come immediately to mind: the F major Invention, and the E
major Prelude from Book I of the WTC. The first displays prominent
tetrachordal motives like those of the Preludio, and the second features...
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The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory by Carl Schachter
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Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (1): 145–154.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., exemplified
in lesson 1 by actual musical examples alongside hypothetical ones, are ways
of “expressing harmony through a melodic line” (3). Linear progressions
embody some of the dynamism inherent in the constitutive lines of a Bach or
Chopin prelude, a Mozart or Beethoven sonata, a Haydn string...
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Narrative Archetypes: A Critique, Theory, and Method of Narrative Analysis
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Journal of Music Theory (2003) 47 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 April 2003
... for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven . New York: Oxford University Press. Chopin, Frédéric. 1943 . Preludes for the Piano . Ed. Rafael Joseffy. G. Schirmer: New York. ____. 1968 . Préludes . Ed. Ewald Zimmermann. G. Henle Verlag: Munich. Cone, Edward T. 1977 . “Three Ways to Read...
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Moved by Nothing: Listening to Musical Silence
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Journal of Music Theory (2007) 51 (2): 245–276.
Published: 01 October 2007
... the Nocturne in C≥ minor (op.
posth the Grand Polonaise Brillante op. 22, and the Barcarolle op. 60.
It is even more common in Chopin to find a silence separating the final
cadential gesture from the rest of the piece. Consider the Preludes, for exam-
ple. Silences separate the main body from...
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Generic Sequences and the Generic Tonnetz
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Journal of Music Theory (2020) 64 (1): 63–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
... .” Perspectives of New Music 9 , no. 2–10 , no. 1 : 209 – 31 . Rothgeb John . 1987 . Review of Walter Frisch, Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation . Music Theory Spectrum 9 : 204 – 15 . Schachter Carl . 1994 . “ The Prelude in E Minor op. 28 no. 4: Autograph Sources...
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Journal of Music Theory (2006) 50 (1): 3–4.
Published: 01 April 2006
... and
to highlight JMT’s historical editorial breadth, we asked three leading music
theorists to examine “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist,” a short and intense cho-
rale prelude by J. S. Bach. All authors are struck by the extraordinary fea-
tures of this work. William Renwick, well known as a scholar...
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Tiered Polyphony and Its Determinative Role in the Piano Music of Johannes Brahms
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Journal of Music Theory (2008) 52 (2): 273–320.
Published: 01 October 2008
... dramatically over time in step with the evolution
of harmonic thinking. Generations of musicians have been exquisitely aware
that the polyphony of a motet by Machaut is quite unlike that of a Bach cho-
rale prelude, both of which are similarly unlike...
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