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Understanding Schenkerian Analysis from the Perspective of Music Perception and Cognition
… the perceptual and cognitive reality of Schenkerian theory through a survey of relevant empirical research. It reviews existing Schenkerian-specific empirical research, examines general tonal research applicable to Schenkerian analysis, and proposes the possibility of an optimal empirical …
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How to Apply the Schenkerian Method to the Performance and Teaching of Chopin's and Mozart's Piano Music
… the relationship between piano performance and Schenkerian analysis. Schenkerian analysis was designed initially as a practical guide for performers. In the different levels of a Schenkerian graph, we can see “musical forces” which lead the performer to deeply understand music itself. Using …
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The Application of Schenkerian Concepts of Musical Structure to The Analysis Segment of Basic Theory Courses at The College Level
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
… mortal suffering and eternal joy. It takes an Schenkerian approach to the tonal content of the piece, which provides a musical reflection of the human spiritual journey to the afterlife. It examines how Brahms brings his chosen texts to life with the aid of musical processes such as mixture, …
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The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37
… that defy monotonal reading, using Schenkerian analytical technique. Movement 12 exhibits relative mutability (pairing of relative keys) at all levels, including the background; movement 1 displays multiple centers related to a proto-harmonic structure (Andreĭ Miasoedov's term); and …
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The evolution of Chopin's 'structural style' and its relation to improvisation.
… context, thus laying the groundwork for a Schenkerian study of Chopin's 'improvisatory' compositions; 2. by analysing most of his early pieces and several mature ones, to define Chopin's 'structural style', i.e" the shared structural principles on which music from different genres was …
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Voice Leading in Fugue
… of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier from a Schenkerian perspective. In Bach’s fugues, thematic material usually permeates all the parts, making the surface diminutions unusually complex. Given the predominance of the subject, there is a tendency in the Schenkerian tradition to base the …
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Sibelius's Seventh Symphony: Genesis, Design, Structure, and Meaning
… Symphony from historical (source-critical), Schenkerian, and transtextual perspectives. Through a detailed study of its genesis, musical architecture, and meaning, the author maintains that the Seventh, its composer, and its generative process, can best be understood as a series of verges: …
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Vocabulary, Voice Leading, and Motivic Coherence in Chet Baker's Jazz Improvisations
This study applies Schenkerian theory to Chet Baker's jazz improvisations in order to uncover the melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal hallmarks of his style. Analyses of short excerpts taken from multiple recorded improvisations reveal Baker's improvisational vocabulary, which includes recurring …
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Maria Schneider's "Hang Gliding": Dual Analyses for a Hybrid Musical Style
… pitch class set theory (for the melody) and Schenkerian theory (for the harmony). This analysis demonstrates the growth and decay of the arch form of the piece.
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Sonority and Linear Structure in Three Early Works of Olivier Messiaen
… with two contrasting analytic methods: modified Schenkerian linear-reductive analysis, informed by the interaction of diatonic and octatonic collections, and set-class analysis. The latter approach incorporates the harmonic complexity index (HCI) as an innovative harmonic measure calculated from …
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Tonal and Formal Structure in Selected Larger Works of Chopin
The dissertation named is a Schenkerian investigation of the tonal unfolding, formal subdivision, and performance interpretation of three large Chopin solo works: the Ballade Op. 38, the Fantaisie Op. 49, and the Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61, each of which is characterized by rather unusual tonal …
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Jonathan Harvey's string quartets
… Quartet’s multiple structural levels show a Schenkerian global approach. At the local level, a governing principle of integral serialism is found. The Second Quartet’s primary materials derive from a melodic chain. The Third Quartet’s instrumental writing is inspired by electronic music and …
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Understanding Music Copyright Through Legal Analysis and Music Theory
… two solutions. First, the implementation of Schenkerian analysis for analyzing musical works discussed in court cases due to the theory’s legal background and similarity to the legal understanding of “music.” Second, the requirement that experts present their testimony with amicus curiae …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… theater in New York. Using an eclectic, neo-Schenkerian approach that draws upon recent work by pop-rock and stage music analysts, it examines the intersection of melodic and harmonic events with dramatic occurrences in the text to determine how Sondheim heightens dramatic narrative within …
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Talent and Technique: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and John Paul II's Mayday 1984 Address to New York Gay and Lesbian Socialists' League at Cooper Union's Great Hall (Transcribed into Verse from Unauthorized French and Italian Versions of the Official Soviet Translation of the Polish Original by Norman MacAfee) for Tenor Solo, Chorus (SATB), and Eight Players
… of the repertoire since its premiere. A close (Schenkerian) analysis shows the flaws of the piece in detail. It also reveals considerable structural coherence, however, comprising very sophisticated treatment of motives in the foreground and middleground, and, in the background, the unfolding of …
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Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op.43; Analysis and Discourse
… approach is linear in orientation - that is, Schenkerian. In the course of the analysis, close attention is paid to motivic detail; the analytical chapter carefully examines how the tonal structure and motivic elements in the theme are transformed, repeated, concealed, and expanded throughout …
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Polyfocal structures in Franz Schubert's Lieder
… I propose a new method of analysis that combines Schenkerian analysis with interpretive approaches derived from the work of Harald Krebs, Edward T. Cone, and Patrick McCreless. Cone believes that a third level of hearing should be attained in which one synthesizes the diachronic (naïve) and …
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The four Mephisto waltzes of Franz Liszt
… by these works, I have used a modified form of Schenkerian analysis. Departures from, or additions to standard techniques are mentioned within the appropriate chapters. Since the four Mephisto Waltzes (especially the latter two) have not been exhaustively analysed, it is hoped that this study …
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Remystifying Scriabin: Scalar Quality in the Late Works
… established analytical tools are employed: Schenkerian analysis, Pitch-Class Set Theory, Scalar Theory, sonata-focused theories of form, and notions of ‘Russian’ modular discontinuity. Often, the employment of one method occurs in tandem with another, or others, to generate revealing …
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