Beschreibung
This collection of essays explores a wide range of topics current in the field of music theory, including history of styles, musical aesthetics, harmony, counterpoint and world music. Authors reflect critically on challenges within their specific areas of expertise and probe directions in which advances can be made and difficulties overcome.
Autorenportrait
Denis Collins is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Queensland (Australia). He has published widely on the history of music theory, especially contrapuntal processes in Renaissance and Baroque music.
Inhalt
Contents: Rebekah Woodward: Towards New Editing Methods for Transcribing the Polyphonic Notre Dame Conductus Repertory – Luca Bruno: A Methodological Approach Toward the Harmony of Sixteenth-Century Secular Polyphony – Denis Collins: John Bull’s «Art of Canon» and Plainsong-Based Counterpoint in the Late Renaissance – Byron Almén: Toward a Pluralism of Musical Cognitive Processes – Timothy Dwight Edwards: The Sinfonias of J. S. Bach as an Advanced Discourse on Harmony – Dimitar Ninov: Basic Formal Structures in Music: A New Approach – Dennis Cole: Incorporating Transcriptions and Notation: Pedagogical Issues for the World Music Ensemble – Elizabeth Lee: Music, Imagery, Meaning, and Emotion in Hugo Wolf’s «An eine Äolsharfe». An Analytical Triangulation via Schenkerian Analysis, the Theory of Musical Forces, and Cognitive Metaphor Theory – Simon Perry: Pitch-Notational Analysis: A Basis for an Approach to Understanding Harmonic Thinking in Common-Practice and Post Common-Practice Tonality – Miloš Zatkalik: Reconsidering Teleological Aspects of Nontonal Music – Leon Stefanija: Levers of Satire in Twentieth-Century Music.
