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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music

Harcus, AaronThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2018

… dissertation is about tone presence, or how musical tone shows up for experience in twentieth-century music. In exploring the subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a …

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