Alison Hood combines significant aspects of current analytical approaches and applies that unique synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. The specific combination of five aspects distinguishes Hood's method from previous analytical approaches. These five methods are attent…
Music theory is often seen as independent from--even antithetical to--performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves neither the theorist nor the perf…
Alison Hood combines significant aspects of current analytical approaches and applies that unique synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. The specific combination of five aspects distinguishes Hood's method from previous analytical approaches. These five methods are attent…
Alison Hood combines significant aspects of current analytical approaches and applies that unique synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. The specific combination of five aspects distinguishes Hood's method from previous analytical approaches. These five methods are attent…
Contains graphical analyses of the chorale, Ich bin's ich sollte büssen from the St. Matthew Passion, and Prelude no. 1 in C major, from the Well-tempered clavier, v. 1, by J.S. Bach, Sonata in E-flat major, H. xvi, no. 49, by J. Haydn, and the Etudes, op. 10, no. 8 and 12 by F.…
Schenker's structural analysis differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance of all tones in terms of motion and direction in the achievement of organic tonal unity. These sketches study the musical architecture of tw…