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The Expectancy Dynamics of Anti-Tonal Twelve-Tone Rows: A Commentary and Reanalysis of von Hippel & Huron (2020)

Empirical Musicology Review, 2020
This commentary provides two methodological expansions of von Hippel and Huron's (2020) empirical report on (anti-)tonality in twelve-tone rows by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. First, motivated by the theoretical importance of equality
Niels Chr. Hansen
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Shape Cognition and Temporal, Instrumental and Cognitive Constraints on Tonality. Public Peer Review of “Tonality: The Shape of Affect” by Mine Doğantan-Dack.

Empirical Musicology Review, 2013
One of the main aims of Mine Doğantan-Dack's article is to present a theory of the evolutionary emergence of tonality in music and its connections with affective states.
Rolfe Inge Godøy
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“Modulate! modulate! modulate! but do not change the key.” The development and transformation of the term modulation in the 19^th-century French theory

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2018
Historical sources recount an anecdote about a class on organ improvisation taught by the already renowned composer and organist César Franck (1822 – 1890) and attended by young Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) in the 1880s.
Nikola Komatović
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TEXTS SENTIMENT-ANALYSIS APPLICATION FOR PUBLIC OPINION ASSESSMENT [PDF]

Научно-технический вестник информационных технологий, механики и оптики, 2015
The paper describes an approach to the emotional tonality assessment of natural language texts based on special dictionaries. A method for an automatic assessment of public opinion by means of sentiment-analysis of reviews and discussions followed by ...
I. A. Bessmertny, R. V. Posevkin
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Unruly intonation

Linguistica, 2017
In this paper we call into question the value of ‘rules’ concerning intonation to the learner of English. Are there predictive rules of sufficient generality and power to make them worth learning explicitly, or would learners’ time be better spent on ...
Michael George Ashby, Patricia Ashby
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Praetorius’ Polyhymnia caduceatrix (1619). Diatonische Logik und Skalenlogik in mehrchörigen und konzertierenden Werken des Frühbarocks [PDF]

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2020
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die ConcertGesänge in Michael Praetorius’ Polyhymnia caduceatrix (1619) im Hinblick auf ihre modal-tonalen Eigenschaften. Nach einem historischen Überblick fokussiert der Artikel die Rolle, Bezifferung und Aussetzung des in der ...
Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann, Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans   +1 more
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Tonalität als geschichtliches System. ›Dogmatische Denkform‹ und historischer Nachweis [PDF]

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2016
Die Entstehung der harmonischen Tonalität bereitet einer wissenschaftlichen Erklärung insofern Schwierigkeiten, als Tonalität einen Gegenstand darstellt, der einerseits Systemcharakter besitzt, der andererseits aber geschichtlich aus dem allmählichen ...
Michael Polth
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
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From Text to Value: Measuring and Pricing Firm Climate Risk Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how the prominence and tone of climate risk disclosures affect firm value and strategic climate positioning for large European nonfinancial companies. We developed a firm‐level climate risk exposure (CRE) index that assesses climate risks within corporate narratives across four EU categories: transition risk, physical risk ...
Stefano Dell'Atti, Matteo Foglia, Grazia Onorato   +2 more
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Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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