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John, two shameless plugs here.
My 2020 SMT paper dealt with some ways in which performance can facilitate or impede the perception of certain topics (one of them being the hymn, which bridges your "seemingly unrelated" questions). You can find a pr…
What a wonderful topic!
I would say that Monelle's concepts of progressive and lyric time are accessible to a broad audience (The Sense of Music, Chapter 4). Sections from Berger's Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow would be more challenging but also feas…