...Philip Rupprecht philipr@duke.edu Daniel Harrison . Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music . New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 : 208 pp. ( $42.95 cloth) Copyright © 2022 by Yale University 2022 THE TITLE OF Daniel Harrison's remarkable...

... in Bellini of tonal pairing, usually (but not always) involving relative keys. The sonorità or focal melodic pitch, long associated with Verdi’s operas, is found to play a unifying role in the second-act finale of Norma . Issues of reception history, text criticism, and analytical methodology are also...

.... The consequences of such changes are most often purely tonal in nature, giving rise to modulations that would otherwise take place during episodes. Much less frequently, tonal and rhythmic transformations of the subject may occur simultaneously, as in the fugue from the Sinfonia that opens Partita no. 2 in C minor...

...Christopher Brody All theories of structure in tonal music must balance the competing claims to priority of multiple musical parameters. Most prominently, the study of tonal form has long concerned itself with how to reconcile the at times contradictory demands of thematic design and tonal...

...James N. Bennett This article develops a method for interpreting Béla Bartók's early tonal practice that supposes a conceptual shift from a relatively historically static major-minor tonality to a multivalent, “evolving” tonality in which works express individual variations on abstract, communal...

.... Bernard, Jonathan W. 1997 . “Chord, Collection, and Set in Twentieth-Century Theory.” In Music Theory in Concept and Practice . Ed. James M. Baker, David W. Beach, and Jonathan W. Bernard. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 11 -52. Bharucha, J. J. 1984 . “Event Hierarchies, Tonal Hierarchies...

...Kofi Agawu REVIEWS Carl Schachter. Edited by Joseph N. Straus The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory Oxford University Press, 2016: v + 295 pp. ($45.00 cloth) Kofi Agawu In a career spanning some six...

...Nathaniel Adam 261 Journal of Music Theory 63:2, October 2019 DOI 10.1215/00222909-7795200 © 2019 by Yale University Christopher Doll Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era University of Michigan Press, 2017: x + 320 pp. ($90.00 cloth, $39.95 paper) Nathaniel Adam Building theory...

...) the recapitulation is an exact (or near-exact) restatement of the exposition’s thematic materials, and (2) it takes but one tonal alteration (or “adjustment”) of these materials to make a recapitulation conclude in the key in which it began. This article aims to examine the second of these presuppositions in hopes...

..., and Brahms. 18. For Schenkerian studies involving the music of Gabriel Fauré, see: Taylor Greer, “Modal Sensibility in Gabriel Fauré’s Musical Language,” Theory and Practice 16 (1991): 127–142; Edward Phillips, “Smoke, Mirrors and Prisms: Tonal Con- tradictions in Faur Music Analysis 12, no. 1...

... Music 36 : 107 -42. THE PROGRESSION VECTOR: MODELLING ASPECTS OF POST-TONAL HARMONY Paul Nauert Overview Post-tonal harmonic progressions can be conceived in terms of suc- cessions of pitch class sets...

...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...

... described in patents of 1829 and 1844. Like the later tonal spaces of the German dualist theorists, the concertina's button layouts were inspired by the work of eighteenth-century mathematician Leonhard Euler, who used a lattice to show relationships among pitches in just intonation. Wheatstone originally...

...Robert P. Morgan 1999 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 1999 ARE THERE TWO TONAL PRACTICES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC? Robert P. Morgan Article/review of The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality, William Kinderman and Harald Krebs...

...-dominant chords at cadences (yielding tonic–pre-dominant–dominant–tonic syntax) more regularly than his models do. Finally, in the rare instances that he chooses models without periodic phrase structure, Morley introduces periodicity. Morley's recompositions contribute to the tonal sound that, historically...

...Edward Gollin Edward Gollin is associate professor of music at Williams College. Steven Rings Tonality and Transformation Oxford University Press, 2011: xi+272 pp. ($35.00 cloth) Edward Gollin Symmetry plays a central, if not always explicit, role in transformational music...