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Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 3-43, March 2025.ABSTRACT Is musical analysis meant to guide performance – or to be based on it? Can a Schenkerian analysis of a piece be corroborated by a performance or an arrangement? This article addresses these questions through a well‐known test case – the first prelude of the first book of Bach's Well‐Tempered Clavier, as analysed by Heinrich Schenker in Five ...
NAPHTALI WAGNER, RAM REUVEN
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Wittgenstein, Modern Music, and the Myth of Progress [PDF]
, 2017 Georg Henrik von Wright was not only the first interpreter of Wittgenstein, who argued that Spengler’s work had reinforced and helped Wittgenstein to articulate his view of life, but also the first to consider seriously that Wittgenstein’s attitude to ...
Guter, Eran
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Memetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Tonal Systems [PDF]
, 2015 Cohn (1996) and Taruskin (1985) consider the increasing prominence during the nineteenth century of harmonic progressions derived from the hexatonic and octatonic pitch collections respectively.
Blackmore S. J. +19 more
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Music Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 247-301, July 2024.ABSTRACT In major‐minor tonality, V implies I, and rising fourths, falling thirds and rising seconds between successive chord roots are more common than falling fourths, rising thirds and falling seconds respectively. Possible explanations involve history (in two‐part medieval counterpoint, harmonic major sixths resolved to octaves – maintained in V–I);
RICHARD PARNCUTT
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Kontrastive Grammatik Berndeutsch / Standarddeutsch. Einige ausgewählte Aspekte [PDF]
, 2002 The analysis presented in the following is the result of a project-seminar on "Contrastive grammar in Bernese German and High German" with Prof. Dr. Elke Hentschel, in which the preliminary works for a comprehensive contrastive grammar were conducted ...
Burri, Gabriela, Imstepf, Denise
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Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony
Music Analysis, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 36-76, March 2024.ABSTRACT The timeworn view that Bruckner's sonata form is a motionless architecture devoid of dynamic processes has long contributed his isolation from the mainstream post‐Beethovenian tradition. Taking inspiration from August Halm's (1914) and Ernst Kurth's (1925) approaches, which were aimed at overcoming this view, this article seeks to elucidate ...
SUNBIN KIM
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Computer Simulation of Musical Evolution: A Lesson from Whales [PDF]
, 2015 Simulating musical creativity using computers needs more than the ability to devise elegant computational implementations of sophisticated algorithms. It requires, firstly, an understanding of what phenomena might be regarded as music; and, secondly, an ...
Jan, Steven
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A surrogate for the soul: Wittgenstein and Schoenberg [PDF]
, 2011 This article challenges a widespread assumption, arguing that Wittgenstein and the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg had little in common beyond their shared cultural heritage, overlapping social circles in fin-de-ciecle Vienna.
Guter, Eran
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Melodic Metaphors for Dreams in Three Classic Songs from the Disney Catalog [PDF]
, 2015 Three of the most-valued songs from the Disney catalog are “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” “When You Wish Upon a Star,” and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.” All three songs come from animated feature films created during Walt Disney’s lifetime (1901-
Bohn, James
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Background conglomerates in Alkan\u27s Quasi-Faust, op. 33, no. 2 [PDF]
, 2006 Various approaches have been used over the past 50 years to describe and analyze works that exhibit tonality but have more than one tonic. This paper focuses solely on a subcategory of such works: those that begin in one key and end in another, the first
Steinbron, Matthew James
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