Music Theory and Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Alexander Rehding
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

In principle, music theory and philosophy are close allies, both trying to understand the fundamental issues of music. In practice, however, a deep rift has remained ever since the time of Aristotle and Aristoxenus. Rather than present a survey, this chapter focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the foundations were laid for our current music-theoretical practice, to examine the sources of tension and attraction between the two discourses, using Schopenhauer’s philosophy and Ernst Kurth’s Wagnerian music theory as a twin case study. Both Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of music and Kurth’s energistic model of tension-relaxation present related views on harmony and melody. When considered in combination, the two go a long way to bridging the age-old disparities between both disciplines.

Successful AP Music Theory Instruction: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Nathan O. Buonviri
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Attention To Students ◽  
Placement Exam

The purpose of this case study was to examine the instructional approach of a highly successful Advanced Placement Music Theory teacher. I visited the participant’s class twice a week for 14 weeks, taking field notes, conducting interviews, and collecting instructional artifacts. Analysis of qualitative data revealed three main themes: classroom atmosphere, instructional strategies, and the Advanced Placement exam. The participant’s classroom atmosphere was built on effective pacing, student rapport, and an active, open learning environment. His instructional strategies included offering individual attention to students, asking questions to model thinking, and connecting sight to sound. He used the Advanced Placement exam as both an instructional guidepost and motivational tool. Implications for music educators include the need to focus on specific approaches conducive to successful theory teaching, which may share both similarities and differences with approaches they use when directing ensembles.

John Tucke: A Case Study in Early Tudor Music Theory.

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
Gene S. Trantham ◽  
Ronald Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory

HERMENEUTICS AND THE NEW FORMENLEHRE: AN INTERPRETATION OF HAYDN'S ‘OXFORD’ SYMPHONY, FIRST MOVEMENT

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW RILEY
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sonata Form ◽  
Primary Mode ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article establishes a dialogue between twenty-first-century music theory and historical modes of enquiry, adapting the new Formenlehre (Caplin, Hepokoski/Darcy) to serve a historically oriented hermeneutics. An analytical case study of the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 92 (1789) traces the changing functional meanings of the opening ‘caesura prolongation phrase’. The substance of the exposition consists largely of things functionally ‘before-the-beginning’ and ‘after-the-end’, while the recapitulation follows a logic of suspense and surprise, keeping the listener continually guessing. The analysis calls into question Hepokoski and Darcy's restriction of the mode of signification of sonata-form movements to the narration of human action. The primary mode of signification of the recapitulation is indexical: it stands as the effect of a human cause. This account matches late eighteenth-century concepts of ‘genius’.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Lang ◽  
Joy Damousi ◽  
Alison Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Human Case ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Case Writing ◽  
Critical Intervention

A History of the Case Study represents a critical intervention into contemporary debate concerning the construction of knowledge which – after Michel Foucault’s elaborations on modern discourses of power – considers the medical case study in particular as an expression of new forms of disciplinary authority. This volume scrutinises the changing status of the human case study, that is, the medical, legal or literary case study that places an individual at its centre. With close reference to the dawning of ‘sexual modernity’ during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to ideas about sexual identity in the period immediately before and after the fin de siècle, the following chapters examine the case writing practices of selected pioneers of the case study genre....

scholarly journals Analyzing Musical Terminology in Slovene Music Textbooks up until the End of World War II: a case study of the term “note” and some other related terms

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-138
Author(s):  
Jelena Grazio
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
End Of The World

The following article deals with technical terminology in the field of music. Its intention is to present a chronological-contrastive analysis of musical terminology in Slovene music theory textbooks written up until the end of the World War II, exemplified by the terms selected. The author emphasizes the importance of such research for musicology, presents current contributions in this area and describes the history of musical textbooks that have been used as corpus for the analysis.

Ordinary Masochisms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Theoretical Examination ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Ordinary Masochisms argues for literary alternatives to pervasive dictatorial norms about masochism that first surface in Victorian literature, reach their pioneering pinnacle in the modernist moment, and are expressly mourned in post-modern texts. In particular, the literary works discussed all challenge the more popular term “sadomasochism” as a conglomerate form of perversion that was named and studied in the late nineteenth century. Underscoring close textual analyses with modern theories of masochism as empowering, this book argues that Charlotte Brontë Villette (1853), George Moore’s A Drama in Muslin (1886), D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (1915), and Jean Rhys’s Quartet (1928) all experiment with masochistic relationships that extend far beyond reductive early readings of inherently feminine or sexually aberrant masochism. Ordinary Masochisms begins with a historical and theoretical examination of masochism’s treatment during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries before moving to an examination of the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah in conjunction with Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs (1870), from which masochism garners its name. An intermediary chapter treats Octave Mirbeau’s The Torture Garden (1903) as a case study transitioning between sexological and psychoanalytical discourses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while the conclusion about Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers (1981) addresses masochism’s seeming inability to recuperate itself from categories of deviance, despite the success of contemporary popular culture representations. The book closes with a brief consideration of masochistic reading, a subtle undercurrent of the project as a whole.

John Tucke: A Case Study in Early Tudor Music Theory

Notes ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1312
Author(s):  
David Wulstan ◽  
Ronald Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory

A Case Study in Early Tudor Music Theory

1993 ◽  
Vol 134 (1810) ◽  
pp. 706
Author(s):  
Judith Blezzard ◽  
John Tucke ◽  
Ronald Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory
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