...Ludwig Holtmeier This essay explores the understanding of tonality and in particular the concept of chord, as demonstrated in the Italian thoroughbass tradition, especially in the didactic tradition of partimenti . For a long time this tradition was entirely overlooked because of the dominance...

... Racial Frame of Tonality (Part I) .” History of Music Theory—SMT Interest Group and AMS Study Group (blog), September 29 . historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/fetiss-racial-frame-of-tonality-part-i . Christensen Thomas . 2020b . “ Fétis's Racial Frame of Tonality (Part II...

...-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. Rings Steven Tonality and Transformation Oxford University Press , 2011 : xi+272 pp . ( $35.00 cloth ) © 2014 by Yale University 2014 Work Cited Agmon Eyton . 1979...

...Ellen Bakulina This article offers a Schenkerian interpretation of movement 12 from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil , also known as Vespers , op. 37 (1915), from the standpoint of tonal duality, known in Russian as peremennost’ , or mutability. First, I explore theoretical connections between...

...Nicole Biamonte [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Yale University 2024 in “tonality and racism” Jason Yust advocates for dropping the concept of tonality as an organizing principle in music curricula, analytical methods, and theoretic discourse. He shows...

...Jason Yust Abstract Tonality is one of the most important concepts in music theory, determining how music theorists organize music institutionally (in curricula, conferences, etc.) and conceptually. For François-Joseph Fétis, who first popularized the term in the nineteenth century...

... of tonality represent racism? • • • • • So as to not bury the lede, I agree with Yust that tonality is more trouble than it's worth, and that it makes sense to move beyond the term. In discussing the perceptual aspects of tonality, such as musical expectation, attraction, and pitch centricity...

... scramble to revise the curriculum. 2 So, yeah, musicology: guilty as charged. But this forum is designed to respond to Jason Yust's timely and lucid position paper in this issue, “Tonality and Racism.” Yust rightly starts by locating the coinage of the term tonality by François-Joseph Fétis...

...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...

...Kofi Agawu Schachter Carl . Edited by Straus Joseph N. , The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory , Oxford University Press , 2016 : v + 295 pp. ( $45.00 cloth) Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 Works Cited Agawu Kofi . 2009...

...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...

...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...

...: An Introduction to Poetry and Song . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Biamonte Nicole . 2017 . “ Pop/Rock Tonalities .” In Wörner, Scheideler, and Rupprecht 2017 : 89 – 101 . Boss Jack . 2019 . Schoenberg's Atonal Music: Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function...

... 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...