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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"post-tonal"”.
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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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Rotational strategy in selected works by Béla Bartók
… familiar Formenlehre is necessary in Bartók’s post-tonal repertoire to avoid confusion with the generic expectations that often accompany labels such as principal theme, subordinate theme, exposition, development, recapitulation, etc. Also, as rotational form is characterized by Hepokoski and …
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Remystifying Scriabin: Scalar Quality in the Late Works
… sonic characteristics abstracted from diatonic tonality (seventh types and unstable ‘rare-interval’ tritones). Thus, one potential tension/relaxation dynamic possible between non-diatonic collections is uncovered, sensitive to both intervallic content and spacing/voicing parameters. With ‘Scalar …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… 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 musical interval for experience, drawing on a wide range of research from social theory, semiotics, theories of emotion, African American studies, literary …
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Toward a Unified Whole: Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 5.
… and direction. The use of linear analysis in a post-tonal context makes necessary a section devoted to explicating the graphic notation shown in the analysis and the analytical process of determining linear progressions.
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An Analysis of Phrase Structures in the First Movement of Leo Brouwer’s Elogio De La Danza (1964)
… Elegio de la Danza (1964), a work that draws on tonal and post-tonal traditions. By adapting key features of the tonal motive, as described by Douglass Green, and the tonal period, as proposed by Green and William Caplin, the model seeks to provide a tool for the discussion of phrases and larger …
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A Linear Approach to John Adams' Recent Works
… as relevant research into minimalist music and post-tonal analysis, and some existing approaches are then incorporated into the methodology presented in Chapter 2. The methodology is presented in three stages: identifying formal structure, identifying linear structures through salient pitches, …
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The Effects Of Participation In Band On Band Music Preference
… categories: Harmoniemusik wind pieces, post-tonal wind pieces, publisher-influenced band pieces, contemporary band pieces from within the past fifty years, and British band classics. The results suggest that participation in band has varying influences on music preference. Preference …
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The compositional evolution of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, its formal design and tonal strategies
… and reveals passages that display a level of post-tonal experimentation greater than what is evident in the orchestral score. For both scherzi, an annotated concordance of manuscript pages shows a complexity of formal and tonal evolution than has until now not fully been addressed. A …
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Love in a life: the art songs of Gena Branscombe
… men, those of European descent or training, and post-tonal compositional trends. This research project aims to revive Branscombe’s life, legacy, and music by examining her songs for voice and piano, both tracing their compositional development and suggesting song sets appropriate for recital …
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Abstractions from Spectral Sonorities
… primarily with issues relating to Spectral and Post- Spectral techniques in contemporary music. Potential limitations of Spectralism (as a genre) are taken into consideration, and several philosophical underpinnings of this compositional style are called into question as I consider the …
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Antumbra - Concerto for Classical Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
… Meditation, and Celebration. Antumbra employs a post-tonal approach to the tonic-dominant harmonic scheme by contrasting non-tonal pitch collections with traditional Western modes. For instance, the piece uses ‘modes of limited transposition,’ such as the octatonic and whole-tone scales, whose …
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Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France
… approach to melodic material rather than tonal-harmonic material, allowing this theory to be applied to this repertoire, despite the various systems of post-tonal pitch organization. The analyses reveal that the treatment of melodic elements can be used to express beginning, middle, or …
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Frost Bitten Lotus
… of my orchestral composition based on the tonal system of the Yuan dynasty, which had a fascinating linguistic characteristic: during this period, the traditional four-tone system was undergoing transformation. The entering tone (rusheng) was being merged into other tonal categories, …
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A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin
… this body of work ranging from the extendedly tonal to set-theoretic approaches that place this music as atonal or post-tonal. This dissertation seeks to demonstrate Scriabin’s late works as exemplifying an extendedly tonal idiom by constructing a fundamental bass theory that takes into account …
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A construção do discurso musical de três estudantes na peça Dois Movimentos para Clarinete Solo, de Estercio Marquez Cunha
… constructed their musical discourses in this post-tonal piece, understanding the meaning of the construction process of the musical discourse by these clarinet players. The piece Two Movements for Solo Clarinet belongs to a repertoire of works for clarinet that make use of compositional …
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Sonority and Linear Structure in Three Early Works of Olivier Messiaen
… All three works exhibit varying degrees of tonal behavior in combination with a foreground focus on harmonic sonority. As such, I approach each of them with two contrasting analytic methods: modified Schenkerian linear-reductive analysis, informed by the interaction of diatonic and octatonic …