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What thoughts do y'all have?" The nazis, the facists, and the maoists shut down the newspapers when they seized power. Or.... maybe the people who wish to engage in a healthy, mature discussion about the state of our field aren't inclined to parti…
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Not sure this is exactly what you have in mind, Mark, but "Mercury" from Holst's The Planets strikes me as a piece with an unambiguous climax that falls midway through -- or in this case, actually a little before the midpoint. Come to think of it, t…
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I'm totally impressed by the range and thoughtfulness of all of the different responses to this question. I shouldn't be -- this is something almost every theorist gives a lot of thought to -- but still I got a lot of perspectives I had not thought…
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My own go-to for a definition has been Tymoczko's (2011) 5 features, but since you're looking for original definitions, here's my personal attempt, probably too lengthy to be correct: An emergent aspect of (pitched) music through which pitch-classes…
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I'm amenable to this style of harmonic analysis and suppose I have taught it to undergrads now and then, though only briefly and informally. It's easily abused, but I do think it has a quite a few practical and conceptual advantages over bracket not…
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Great progression! To my ears, there are at least two factors that make the Fm7 chord intelligible within the context of the larger chorus. 1) Part of a ii-V-I fake-out. The Fm7 has the voicing of a ii7 within a standard jazzy ii-V-I harmonic module…
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One more -- If you count musical theater, one other example that Horner *definitely* was aware of is "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story, which features a pretty famous 134 pattern in Scott's nomenclature (Gb: I-iii-bVII...). Horner didn't ju…
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Ah, one of my favorite tonal spaces! I actually briefly mention the Prokofiev in a footnote (fn27) in the MTS article, and go into a bit more detail on it and a few other examples in my dissertation (pp. 214-223), though that Reger example is news t…
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Thank you Trevor for bringing up this important issue and being so forthright with your personal story. It's refreshing and more than a little heartening, as someone who's faced my share of crushing rejections too. Overall, I find many of the points…
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Scott, what a refreshing way of looking at this music. And not only because it considers rhythm, so often a blind-spot in screen music analyses. Any approach to the question of film musical originality that doesn’t boil down to Brahms’s “jeder Esel”…
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Tahirih, thanks for sharing my post. It was written for a general musicological audience, so I refrained from delving too deeply into the analytical questions the music poses. But, given this forum, I'd be interested to learn how music theorists int…
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The Smashing Pumpkin's "The End is the Begining is the End," used memorably in the trailer for Watchmen, undulates repeatedly between m3-related chords. There's some initial ambiguity as to which is the better tonic candidate, Dm or Fm, especially a…
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