Three Conceptions of Musical Distance
... this particular kind of voice leading then the Tonnetz provides an accurate and useful model. However, there is no analogous characterization of larger distances in the space. In other words, we do not get a recognizable notion of voice-leading distance by “decomposing” voice leadings into sequences ...
... this particular kind of voice leading then the Tonnetz provides an accurate and useful model. However, there is no analogous characterization of larger distances in the space. In other words, we do not get a recognizable notion of voice-leading distance by “decomposing” voice leadings into sequences ...
Lesson_WWW_-_Minor_K..
... and how to find a relative or parallel minor key from a given major key. Minor Keys: A melody is in a minor key if it takes pitches from the melodic minor scale (see the minor scale lesson), gives the tonic a position of primary importance, and treats the remaining scale degrees according to a hiera ...
... and how to find a relative or parallel minor key from a given major key. Minor Keys: A melody is in a minor key if it takes pitches from the melodic minor scale (see the minor scale lesson), gives the tonic a position of primary importance, and treats the remaining scale degrees according to a hiera ...
Dissertation MUSI591 – 10C (HAM)
... First, Chopin appeared to have no intention of performing Op. 28 as a set; rather, he selected individual Préludes that would accompany a selection of other character pieces. Second, Chopin distanced himself somewhat from the generic function of the prélude which was to serve as an introduction to ...
... First, Chopin appeared to have no intention of performing Op. 28 as a set; rather, he selected individual Préludes that would accompany a selection of other character pieces. Second, Chopin distanced himself somewhat from the generic function of the prélude which was to serve as an introduction to ...
Skyler Butenshon History and Literature of Music: Program Notes
... Despite the vast amount of musical works he created during his life in the Romantic Period, the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is remembered as one of Debussy's finest pieces and considered an enormous influence on later composers. The first listen might suggest a free form or improvisational ...
... Despite the vast amount of musical works he created during his life in the Romantic Period, the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is remembered as one of Debussy's finest pieces and considered an enormous influence on later composers. The first listen might suggest a free form or improvisational ...
Level 4 Workbook
... 2. Add accidentals to complete the Eb major scale. 3. Write primary triads above the appropriate notes. 4. Add Roman numerals below the primary triads. ...
... 2. Add accidentals to complete the Eb major scale. 3. Write primary triads above the appropriate notes. 4. Add Roman numerals below the primary triads. ...
MUSIC THEORY BASIC Jonathan Harnum HOW TO READ, WRITE, AND
... root, minor third, diminished fifth, and diminished seventh. diminished triad: A triad with root, minor third, and diminished fifth. diminuendo (It): Growing gradually softer. diminution: Shortening the length of notes in a theme. discord: Dissonant sounds or sounds unpleasant to the ear. disjunct: ...
... root, minor third, diminished fifth, and diminished seventh. diminished triad: A triad with root, minor third, and diminished fifth. diminuendo (It): Growing gradually softer. diminution: Shortening the length of notes in a theme. discord: Dissonant sounds or sounds unpleasant to the ear. disjunct: ...
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... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
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... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
melody - Test Bank 1
... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
... familiar, however, with the basic concept of consonance and dissonance. Emphasize that perceptions have changed over time and that many cultures have unique ideas of what sounds pleasing or harsh. Some students confuse consonance and dissonance with good and bad sounds. They need to realize that dis ...
DISCOVERING CHORD IDIOMS THROUGH BEATLES AND REAL BOOK SONGS
... We follow Pachet by using manually extracted chord labels for our analyses. We deliberately avoid any analysis of tonality or other high-level features because we believe that they are coded implicitly in chord sequences of sufficient length. That is, the chord sequences themselves represent the evo ...
... We follow Pachet by using manually extracted chord labels for our analyses. We deliberately avoid any analysis of tonality or other high-level features because we believe that they are coded implicitly in chord sequences of sufficient length. That is, the chord sequences themselves represent the evo ...
Contemporary Musical Structures
... are obvious when one examines the restricted tonal idiom of the jazz style. The very elements which make it attractive as a popular style, work against it in the extended developments which characterize symphonic and chamber music forms. A composer working with the blues, for example, is immediatel ...
... are obvious when one examines the restricted tonal idiom of the jazz style. The very elements which make it attractive as a popular style, work against it in the extended developments which characterize symphonic and chamber music forms. A composer working with the blues, for example, is immediatel ...
Musical Harmony, Mathematics, and Esotericism
... The basic building block of music is the note. A note has several characteristics, including pitch, duration, volume (“loudness”), and timbre. In modern western music, notes are discrete frequencies that lie on a scale. The seven white notes on a piano are designated A through G, whereupon the next ...
... The basic building block of music is the note. A note has several characteristics, including pitch, duration, volume (“loudness”), and timbre. In modern western music, notes are discrete frequencies that lie on a scale. The seven white notes on a piano are designated A through G, whereupon the next ...
Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech
... melodies for analysis of which 3699 were major and 2856 minor. The distribution of key signatures for these melodies is shown in Table IIB. To assess the tonal differences between the major and minor melodies, the chromatic intervals represented by each melody note were determined 共1兲 with respect t ...
... melodies for analysis of which 3699 were major and 2856 minor. The distribution of key signatures for these melodies is shown in Table IIB. To assess the tonal differences between the major and minor melodies, the chromatic intervals represented by each melody note were determined 共1兲 with respect t ...
At The Cutting Edge: Three American Theorists at The End of The
... though George Ives was educated in the United States, his music education was as essentially German as those of Klauser and Ziehn. Kuhn's revolutionary interpretation of historical change portrays scientific development as a succession of tradition-bound periods punctuated by noncumulative breaks. A ...
... though George Ives was educated in the United States, his music education was as essentially German as those of Klauser and Ziehn. Kuhn's revolutionary interpretation of historical change portrays scientific development as a succession of tradition-bound periods punctuated by noncumulative breaks. A ...
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... history for its originality on many levels, proof that Debussy had established a style that embodied both an acute sense of orchestral colour and a development of the established ‘rules’ of harmony and form. The piece is based on a poem by the contemporary French poet Mallarmé entitled L’après-midi ...
... history for its originality on many levels, proof that Debussy had established a style that embodied both an acute sense of orchestral colour and a development of the established ‘rules’ of harmony and form. The piece is based on a poem by the contemporary French poet Mallarmé entitled L’après-midi ...
Musical Concepts
... speed and the tempo indication on a score tells the performer how fast to play the piece. Tempo may also affect the expressive quality of the music. Although composers indicate on a written score the speed at which to play their music, it is not necessary to study these specific terms for this course ...
... speed and the tempo indication on a score tells the performer how fast to play the piece. Tempo may also affect the expressive quality of the music. Although composers indicate on a written score the speed at which to play their music, it is not necessary to study these specific terms for this course ...
Spectral analysis of different harmonies Implemented by Equal
... noticeable differences in the specific range, and the red-lettered frequencies exist only in the equal tempered tuning. Although the Just tuned major and minor triads have significantly clearer frequency ratio relationships than the Equal tempered major and minor triads, many newly arisen integer re ...
... noticeable differences in the specific range, and the red-lettered frequencies exist only in the equal tempered tuning. Although the Just tuned major and minor triads have significantly clearer frequency ratio relationships than the Equal tempered major and minor triads, many newly arisen integer re ...
Proficiencies—Piano Student Name: First Last Course Number
... performance in the Freshman year. Complete 2 public performances (one per semester) in the Sophomore year. Complete 2 public performances in the first semester of the Junior year. Perform one memorized solo from standard intermediate piano repertoire. Play all major and harmonic minor key scales, ar ...
... performance in the Freshman year. Complete 2 public performances (one per semester) in the Sophomore year. Complete 2 public performances in the first semester of the Junior year. Perform one memorized solo from standard intermediate piano repertoire. Play all major and harmonic minor key scales, ar ...
Lesson WWW: Minor Keys and Key Signatures
... Minor scales are created by the following ascending pattern of intervals from the tonic: W-H-W-W-HW-W. They can also be created by lowering scale degrees 3, 6 and 7 of a major scale by one half step each. As with major keys, minor keys are based on the pitches of the corresponding scale and are indi ...
... Minor scales are created by the following ascending pattern of intervals from the tonic: W-H-W-W-HW-W. They can also be created by lowering scale degrees 3, 6 and 7 of a major scale by one half step each. As with major keys, minor keys are based on the pitches of the corresponding scale and are indi ...
24. Debussy Pour le piano: Sarabande Introduction and Performance circumstances
... Bars 42–45, the repeat of the opening: the tonality is elusive – if C sharp Aeolian minor, as one might expect, the opening D major chord might be flat-II (Neapolitan chord in root position). Bars 46–49: compare bars 5–8 – clearly beginning in C sharp Aeolian minor. Bars 50–55: new material, which i ...
... Bars 42–45, the repeat of the opening: the tonality is elusive – if C sharp Aeolian minor, as one might expect, the opening D major chord might be flat-II (Neapolitan chord in root position). Bars 46–49: compare bars 5–8 – clearly beginning in C sharp Aeolian minor. Bars 50–55: new material, which i ...
Walter Piston, Practical Theorist
... Piston's Harmony was his first full-sized theory text and is still the most popular of his books. When it first appeared in 1941 it had the field virtually to itself, because it was the first American harmony text to include a preponderance of examples from actual music instead of paradigms and form ...
... Piston's Harmony was his first full-sized theory text and is still the most popular of his books. When it first appeared in 1941 it had the field virtually to itself, because it was the first American harmony text to include a preponderance of examples from actual music instead of paradigms and form ...
Historical Melodrama? Edward Elgar`s Sospiri op. 70 Phillip A. Cooke
... composers of the day, in fact in many cases both the pieces, composers and the publishers have been forgotten, cast aside like the many early twentieth‐century British partsong and oratorio writers who have similarly failed to stand the test of time. The popularity of these works stems largely fr ...
... composers of the day, in fact in many cases both the pieces, composers and the publishers have been forgotten, cast aside like the many early twentieth‐century British partsong and oratorio writers who have similarly failed to stand the test of time. The popularity of these works stems largely fr ...
Tonality
Tonality is a musical system in which pitches or chords are arranged so as to induce a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, and attractions. The pitch or chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. The most common use of the term ""is to designate the arrangement of musical phenomena around a referential tonic in European music from about 1600 to about 1910"" (Hyer 2001). While today classical musics may practice or avoid any sort of tonality, harmony in popular musics remains tonal in some sense, and harmony in folk and jazz musics include many, if not all, modal or tonal characteristics, while having different properties from common-practice classical music.""All harmonic idioms in popular music are tonal, and none is without function"" (Tagg 2003, 534).""Tonality is an organized system of tones (e.g., the tones of a major or minor scale) in which one tone (the tonic) becomes the central point to which the remaining tones are related. In tonality, the tonic (tonal center) is the tone of complete relaxation, the target toward which other tones lead"" (Benward & Saker 2003, 36).""Tonal music is music that is unified and dimensional. Music is unified if it is exhaustively referable to a precompositional system generated by a single constructive principle derived from a basic scale-type; it is dimensional if it can nonetheless be distinguished from that precompositional ordering"" (Pitt 1995, 299).The term tonalité originated with Alexandre-Étienne Choron (1810) and was borrowed by François-Joseph Fétis in 1840 (Reti 1958,; Simms 1975, 119; Judd 1998a, 5; Heyer 2001; Brown 2005, xiii). According to Carl Dahlhaus, however, the term tonalité was only coined by Castil-Blaze in 1821 (Dahlhaus 1967, 960; Dahlhaus 1980, 51).Although Fétis used it as a general term for a system of musical organization and spoke of types de tonalités rather than a single system, today the term is most often used to refer to major–minor tonality, the system of musical organization of the common practice period. Major-minor tonality is also called harmonic tonality, diatonic tonality, common practice tonality, functional tonality, or just tonality.