Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon
... • Despite some initial experiments in polytonality (e.g., En avion from the Promenades for piano), the vast majority of Poulenc’s music is unambiguously tonal and his harmony is fundamentally diatonic and functional, if sometimes intricate. The critic Clarendon called Poulenc “the best harmonist of ...
... • Despite some initial experiments in polytonality (e.g., En avion from the Promenades for piano), the vast majority of Poulenc’s music is unambiguously tonal and his harmony is fundamentally diatonic and functional, if sometimes intricate. The critic Clarendon called Poulenc “the best harmonist of ...
Composing In the Flesh: Perceptually
... dissonance. The degree of roughness of an interval or chord depends on the extent to which it has spectral components within the same critical band. The critical band is related to the smallest frequency difference that will allow two pure tones to be perceptually identified as two autonomous tones ...
... dissonance. The degree of roughness of an interval or chord depends on the extent to which it has spectral components within the same critical band. The critical band is related to the smallest frequency difference that will allow two pure tones to be perceptually identified as two autonomous tones ...
Basic Music Theory - 547 Canuck Squadron
... A clef is a sign placed at the beginning of a staff to determine the names of the notes. This clef gives the name to the note placed on the same line. From this point on the staff, we can name all the notes above and below. Music notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, from A ...
... A clef is a sign placed at the beginning of a staff to determine the names of the notes. This clef gives the name to the note placed on the same line. From this point on the staff, we can name all the notes above and below. Music notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet, from A ...
A Theory of Tonal Hierarchies in Music
... Rosch 1975, 1978, 1979), which motivated the initial empirical studies of tonal hierarchies (Krumhansl 1979; Krumhansl and Shepard 1979; Krumhansl and Kessler 1982). Within categories, certain perceptual and conceptual objects, called cognitive reference points, have special psychological status. Th ...
... Rosch 1975, 1978, 1979), which motivated the initial empirical studies of tonal hierarchies (Krumhansl 1979; Krumhansl and Shepard 1979; Krumhansl and Kessler 1982). Within categories, certain perceptual and conceptual objects, called cognitive reference points, have special psychological status. Th ...
Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech
... any songs that were annotated as being in more than one key or that were polyphonic. Applying these criteria left 6555 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 t ...
... any songs that were annotated as being in more than one key or that were polyphonic. Applying these criteria left 6555 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 t ...
A permutational triadic approach to jazz harmony and the chord
... − Johannes Lippius, Synopsis of New Music (Synopsis Musicae Novae). God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many ...
... − Johannes Lippius, Synopsis of New Music (Synopsis Musicae Novae). God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many ...
Debussy - Nuages notes
... In contrast with later 19th century harmony, Debussy eschewed traditional chord functions, and, instead, used sonorities that did not resolve or relate to each other in the usual way. As mentioned above in relation to the Symbolist aesthetic, the individual effect of a chord and the overall effect o ...
... In contrast with later 19th century harmony, Debussy eschewed traditional chord functions, and, instead, used sonorities that did not resolve or relate to each other in the usual way. As mentioned above in relation to the Symbolist aesthetic, the individual effect of a chord and the overall effect o ...
Aaron Copland`s Piano Variations: A Study in Character
... brave.”3 That year he gave several other public performances, including one at the First Yaddo Festival. In 1932, the renowned choreographer Martha Graham, drawn to the “wonderful, strange vitality” of the Variations, produced the ballet Dithyrambic, a “difficult solo dance, lasting about thirteen m ...
... brave.”3 That year he gave several other public performances, including one at the First Yaddo Festival. In 1932, the renowned choreographer Martha Graham, drawn to the “wonderful, strange vitality” of the Variations, produced the ballet Dithyrambic, a “difficult solo dance, lasting about thirteen m ...
NEW FRAMEWORK FOR SCORE SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS IN OPENMUSIC
... domain [5], computer systems and programs are used to assist music analysts in improving their work with new representational and computational possibilities (see for instance [6], [7] or [8]). More related to the music information retrieval domain is the extraction of high-level information or know ...
... domain [5], computer systems and programs are used to assist music analysts in improving their work with new representational and computational possibilities (see for instance [6], [7] or [8]). More related to the music information retrieval domain is the extraction of high-level information or know ...
Coming to Terms with Persichetti`s Pageant
... “contour preservation” – a feature of much twentieth-century music where the musical argument is carried by something other than the strong tonal undercurrent that drove music of the preceding era. The chorale is presented and harmonized in four parts, with a half cadence in measure 22 and a continu ...
... “contour preservation” – a feature of much twentieth-century music where the musical argument is carried by something other than the strong tonal undercurrent that drove music of the preceding era. The chorale is presented and harmonized in four parts, with a half cadence in measure 22 and a continu ...
Chopin
... motivic-cellular connections (which belong to the "foreground" type of integrative links) reaches its high point in Chopin's music during the early 1830s and remains more or less the same later on, with the exception of a "post-romantic turning point" in the early 1840s.[7] On the other hand, the sa ...
... motivic-cellular connections (which belong to the "foreground" type of integrative links) reaches its high point in Chopin's music during the early 1830s and remains more or less the same later on, with the exception of a "post-romantic turning point" in the early 1840s.[7] On the other hand, the sa ...
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 ...
PDF text - Music Theory Online
... plagal harmonies of G (Chord 1) and E -minor 7th (Chord 3). The first measure of Example 4b regularizes the octave displacements, showing the voice-leading of the three-note chords as either neighboring (upper two pitches) or passing (lower pitch). The second measure of Example 4b provides an altern ...
... plagal harmonies of G (Chord 1) and E -minor 7th (Chord 3). The first measure of Example 4b regularizes the octave displacements, showing the voice-leading of the three-note chords as either neighboring (upper two pitches) or passing (lower pitch). The second measure of Example 4b provides an altern ...
Sample Copy of Level 1
... The G major scale descending (going down) Notice that it consists of the G and D major tetrachords. 1. Write the note names for all open strings, then write the note names in the circles on the G and D strings for the G major scale. ...
... The G major scale descending (going down) Notice that it consists of the G and D major tetrachords. 1. Write the note names for all open strings, then write the note names in the circles on the G and D strings for the G major scale. ...
A Rule-based System for Tuning Chord Progressions
... its notes is related to its root as an octave equivalent of 2, 3, 5 and 1:9. (In closed root position, this will be 36:45:54:64.) This tuning is not a familiar one in the literature. It is completely avoided by Rameau, for instance, who favors the proportions 20:25:30:36. There is much to say for th ...
... its notes is related to its root as an octave equivalent of 2, 3, 5 and 1:9. (In closed root position, this will be 36:45:54:64.) This tuning is not a familiar one in the literature. It is completely avoided by Rameau, for instance, who favors the proportions 20:25:30:36. There is much to say for th ...
Music Notation Symbols
... This clef can be thought of as an alto or tenor clef. It can be movable. Middle c is determined where the middle of the picture is pointing to. In this case it is the third line and for that reason it is an alto clef. If it were pointing to the fourth line it would be a tenor clef. This clef is most ...
... This clef can be thought of as an alto or tenor clef. It can be movable. Middle c is determined where the middle of the picture is pointing to. In this case it is the third line and for that reason it is an alto clef. If it were pointing to the fourth line it would be a tenor clef. This clef is most ...
here - Springburn Academy
... bass, viola da gamba or bassoon. In addition the harpsichord, organ or lute player was expected to fill in harmonies built on that bass line. Sometimes figures were written under the bass line indicating the chords the composer would like played. This was called figured bass. ...
... bass, viola da gamba or bassoon. In addition the harpsichord, organ or lute player was expected to fill in harmonies built on that bass line. Sometimes figures were written under the bass line indicating the chords the composer would like played. This was called figured bass. ...
Keynote Presentation
... For instance, a researcher might want to compare how closely the music of two composers adheres to a particular scale (say, the major scale). What begins as a straightforward statistical problem requiring little musical knowledge—simply encode which notes are in the scale of the piece’s key and whic ...
... For instance, a researcher might want to compare how closely the music of two composers adheres to a particular scale (say, the major scale). What begins as a straightforward statistical problem requiring little musical knowledge—simply encode which notes are in the scale of the piece’s key and whic ...
Master Your Theory Grade 1
... Below each note write its letter-name. Notice the clef each time. ...
... Below each note write its letter-name. Notice the clef each time. ...
ROMANTIC AND IMPRESSIONIST STYLE IN THE HARP
... plainsong, modality, pentatonicism, wayward contours, and the use of the whole-tone scale. With respect to harmony in these works, one notices a raised level of importance compared to the element of melody. The intensification of harmonic interest is evident in modality, non-functional chord success ...
... plainsong, modality, pentatonicism, wayward contours, and the use of the whole-tone scale. With respect to harmony in these works, one notices a raised level of importance compared to the element of melody. The intensification of harmonic interest is evident in modality, non-functional chord success ...
abstract - eThesis
... analyses have failed to explicate the structural principles on which they are based. For whatever merits such analyses may have had in illustrating significant musical intuitions, the nature of such intuitions remains unclear owing to defective theoretical groundwork.6 Therefore, the suggested inter ...
... analyses have failed to explicate the structural principles on which they are based. For whatever merits such analyses may have had in illustrating significant musical intuitions, the nature of such intuitions remains unclear owing to defective theoretical groundwork.6 Therefore, the suggested inter ...
Blues and Other Popular Styles
... In popular styles such as jazz and the blues, harmonic progressions and dissonance are treated differently from their counterparts in classical styles. First, the seventh chord is considered as stable as the triad. Seventh chords may appear on any degree of the scale and on nearly every change of c ...
... In popular styles such as jazz and the blues, harmonic progressions and dissonance are treated differently from their counterparts in classical styles. First, the seventh chord is considered as stable as the triad. Seventh chords may appear on any degree of the scale and on nearly every change of c ...
ars combinatoria in selected works of cpe bach
... The following recent sources address the topics of organicism and, more implicitly, mechanism: Jamie Croy Kassler, "Heinrich Schenker's Epistemology and Philosophy of Music: An Essay on the Relations Between Evolutionary Theory and Music Theory," in The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought, eds. D. ...
... The following recent sources address the topics of organicism and, more implicitly, mechanism: Jamie Croy Kassler, "Heinrich Schenker's Epistemology and Philosophy of Music: An Essay on the Relations Between Evolutionary Theory and Music Theory," in The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought, eds. D. ...
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... example, [0236] can be found between the second and fifth pitches of the melody. This tendency to blur a chord—that is, adding to any traditional triad a minor second next to one of its pitches—is apparent in many of Vivier’s works, especially early in his output.3 This diminished triad with a blurr ...
... example, [0236] can be found between the second and fifth pitches of the melody. This tendency to blur a chord—that is, adding to any traditional triad a minor second next to one of its pitches—is apparent in many of Vivier’s works, especially early in his output.3 This diminished triad with a blurr ...