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Thereofre, I cannot explain the sudden turn in Philip's opinion towards Schenker and his foillowers[sic]... This is pure speculation, but I wonder if he observed some form of racist attitude creeping into his own analysis, and that is what he was …
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I wrote a paper in grad school for my Irony in Music course discussing some of the Contessa's arias etc. in The Marriage of Figaro. Specifically, I looked at three pieces. For one, I was interested in the connection between one of her arias and an A…
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Including that information might be relevant if it's important to the composer. If that's a part of their life they want people to know, then let people know. Related, how many biographies don't include the number of children Bach had?
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Darryl, that sentence about which you are curious reflects the primary source of my consternation. It seems a fairly simple thing, free dissonance within tonal harmony. Yet the freedom of that dissonance weaving in and out of harmonic structures int…
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Thank you, David. Whether or not my instructors made the points you suggest, I was not savvy enought to pick up on them in theory class. It also doesn't help that I was particularly attracted to the Baroque chorale musically. This will give me mu…
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Carson, you mentioned the matrix and Tonnetz as being planar. Would it be possible for you to develop a 3D Tonnetz in say SketchUp, as perhaps a step toward what you are seeking? Am I correct in understanding that these musical devices establish a…
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It's a lot easier if you zero index: 0*1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*10*11=0
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1-e-&-a may be a little easier to read (with the ampersand instead of spelling 'and').
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The difficulty with this is that music unfolds over time. It is necessarily linear in a certain sense. But I would look for music that somehow distorts our perception of linear time as possible candidates. The other element is to determine whether…
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Fascinating. There are really two divergent "music theories." There is the analysis of music as a cultural phenomenon, and there is analysis of music as a mathematical representation of nature. Western music theory began as the latter but is nowa…
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Related to this, are there any resources that assist in teaching a functional approach to musical thought to non-trained adult singers on a once-weekly basis (such as for a church choir, e.g.)? Simply trying to explain consonance and dissonance, su…
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I can tell you that my instinct when driving and singing "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" is to sing it in scale degrees, and singing in twelve-tone intervals is not as quick a process (especially because of the danger of repeating the approaching interval i…
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Caeciliae looks to have the advantage of integration directly in the typing of the document, whereas Gregorio relies upon LaTeX, a document typesetting program that itself is markup-based. The advantage of the latter is that the text-based files ar…
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Not exactly an answer to your questions, but I took my counterpoint (16th, 18th, and 20th centuries) course over summer, which allowed for a daily saturation compressed over half of the summer. Probably a better way to dive in.
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Dear Karen, Thank you! That helps a lot! I'm still a little confused about why the distinction for viola da gamba. Is it only meant to be played down an octave if the part is being played by a viola da gamba, but otherwise to be played as written…
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