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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Tonality"”.
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Constructing Landscapes: Towards a Hybrid Tonality
… of different compositional techniques: a hybrid tonality. These techniques include (but are not limited to): traditional tonal harmony (e.g. major, minor, and extended triads), non-functional harmony, controlling levels of perceived consonance and dissonance, multi-tonality, and free atonality. …
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Towards a mathematical model of tonality
… questions about the relationships that generate tonality. A generative model, the Spiral Array case; provides a framework on which to design viable and efficient algorithms for problems in music cognition. I demonstrate its versatility by applying the model to three different problems: I develop …
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A Computational Model of the Cognition of Tonality
Tonality is the organization of pitches, both simultaneously and across time, so that certain pitches and chords are heard as attracted, in varying degrees, to other pitches and chords. Most art music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and popular music to the present day, is heavily …
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Playing outside : excursions from the tonality in jazz improvisation
… when they temporarily leave the underlying tonality whilst improvising. The Introduction defines the use of terms such as "outside" and examines texts from the literature. Further. a chronology of the evolution of "playing outside" is proposed. Notation and analysis of twenty short excerpts …
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Tonality And Atonality In Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op2 (austria)
… the year all three of them abandoned traditional tonality and began to write "atonal" music. There are problems, however, with the categories "tonal" and "atonal." Webern denied that the shift from one to the other really involved any radical change in how they handled pitch materials in their …
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Tonality in Schoenberg's music with particular reference to the Piano Concerto
This thesis examines Schoenberg’s use of tonal elements in various works written after 1909. The meanings of the terms, tonal and atonal, are first explored; subsequently, tonal aspects and their connection to a work’s structure are investigated in several of Schoenberg’s atonal and serial pieces. …
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Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler
… to help articulate the dissolution of classical tonality in Mahler’s music.</p>
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Aspects of Form, Tonality, and Texture in the ''Farewell'' Piano Sonatas of Beethoven and Dussek
… "Farewell" sonatas through a discussion of form, tonality, and texture. Particular focus is given to the similarities and dissimilarities between the two sonatas. This research paper consists of six chapters: (1) Introduction, (2) Review of existing literature, (3) Brief biographies of Dussek and …
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A Study of Franz Liszt's Concepts of Changing Tonality as Exemplified in Selected "Mephisto" Works
… the nature of the "music of the future" where tonality would be freed from any prescribed procedural requisites.
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Instrument of Change: The Baroque Guitar and the Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in England and France, 1626-1737
… emergence of three core principles of harmonic tonality in 17th- and early 18th-century England and France. My thesis’ geographic scope centres on London and Paris, whilst its temporal scope spans the 111 year period from 1626 – when the earliest known printed source of guitar music to appear in …
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A Model of the Tonal-Chromatic System and Its Application to Selected Works of Gustav Mahler
… approached analysis of late-nineteenth-century tonality. This shift in approach was motivated by the behavior and interaction of harmonic and melodic entities encountered in the music of the great composers of the nineteenth century, such as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Wagner, and …
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Polyfocal structures in Franz Schubert's Lieder
… nearly all earlier tonal composition was monotonality. Monotonality explains the structure of most tonal compositions, but there are numerous examples for which monotonal analysis is inadequate, especially in music of the later nineteenth century. Deformations of monotonality often arise from …
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Functional Harmony and its Relationship to Schoenberg's Early Post-Tonal Music
… Schoenberg ‘freed music from the shackles of tonality.’ It is rather easy to assume that harmonic function cannot exist without tonality. However, within this thesis I aim to demonstrate a system of functional harmony that can operate independently of tonality, and to show how it can suggest …
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Paul Hindmith's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: A Lecture Recital
… musical style is conservative in form and tonality. Tonality and melodic motives constitute the dominant force throughout the entire sonata. In the analysis of harmony in this study, Hindemith's own analytical method, which he established on acoustical phenomenon, will be employed as is …
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Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist
… of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister disciplines to consolidate its vital role in relation to musical study and practice at large. The debate started …
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Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations in Historical and Musical Context
… this trajectory.</p> <p>Late Romanticism pushed tonality to its breaking point. Composers were forced to either extend Wagnerian chromatic harmonies to their limits or make a conscious determination to strike against this path. While composers like Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School …
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An analytical study of selected chamber works
… 1906, when Schoenberg started to move away from tonality, until 1936, when his twelve-tone technique had been firmly established.
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Determining What's Next: A Slow Movement for Chamber Orchestra
… in E minor. After this is established the tonality becomes blurred and cadences are delayed. The first violin and flute seem to be behind a couple measures even though they are considered of the fastest instruments in the orchestra. Eventually the orchestra collides and unites again to …
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