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Twelve-Tone Rows and Aggregate Melodies in the Music of Shostakovich

Stephen C. Brown

Journal of Music Theory (2015) 59 (2): 191–234.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-3136000

Published: 01 October 2015

...Stephen C. Brown Starting in the late 1960s Shostakovich used twelve-tone rows in many of his most significant compositions. These rows usually occur melodically within individual vocal or instrumental parts and function as part of a larger musical fabric that does not otherwise involve twelve-tone...

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Dancing with the Scales: Subchromatic Generated Tone Systems

Marek Žabka

Journal of Music Theory (2014) 58 (2): 179–233.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-2781769

Published: 01 October 2014

...Marek Žabka This article introduces basics of a theory of generated tone systems. It is built on an explicit conceptualization of the notion of comma and yields illuminative insights into diverse areas of music-theoretical discourse. Superchromatic and chromatic comma lattices lead to well-known...

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Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea

Zachary Bernstein

Journal of Music Theory (2016) 60 (2): 263–279.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-3651900

Published: 01 October 2016

...Zachary Bernstein REVIEWS Jack Boss Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea Cambridge University Press, 2014: xxviii + 437 pp. ($110.00 cloth) Zachary Bernstein Defying the laws of historical gravity...

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Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea by Jack Boss

Charlotte M. Cross

Journal of Music Theory (2018) 62 (2): 369–370.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-7306275

Published: 01 October 2018

...Charlotte M. Cross Works Cited Bernstein Zachary . 2016 . Review of Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea, by Jack Boss . Journal of Music Theory 60 / 2 : 263 – 79 . Boss Jack . 2000–2001 . “ The ‘Musical Idea’ and Global Coherence...

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Partition Lattices in Twelve-Tone Music: An Introduction

Richard Kurth

Journal of Music Theory (1999) 43 (1): 21–82.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3090689

Published: 01 April 1999

... in Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Rhetoric.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. Kurth, Richard. 1996 . “Dis-Regarding Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Rows: An Alternative Approach to Listening and Analysis for Twelve-Tone Music.” Theory and Practice 21 : 79 -122. Lewin, David. 1977 . “A Label-Free...

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Schenker and Schoenberg on the Will of the Tone

Matthew Arndt

Journal of Music Theory (2011) 55 (1): 89–146.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-1219205

Published: 01 April 2011

...Matthew Arndt As a comparative reading informed by recent work in integration theory and metaphor theory shows, Heinrich Schenker's and Arnold Schoenberg's Harmonielehren adumbrate broader theories of composition based in part on a conception of the tone as a partly unconsciously perceived, living...

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