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Hearing the Tonality in Microtonality

by Bruschi, Michael

0 Type: Thesis

In the late 1970s and 1980s, composer-pianist Easley Blackwood wrote a series of microtonal compositions exploring the tonal and modal behavior of a dozen non–twelve-tone equal temperaments, ranging from 13 to 24 tones per octave. This dissertation investigates a central paradox…

How the Phrygian Final Lost Its Finality

by Hynes-Tawa, Liam Patrick

0 Type: Thesis

This dissertation investigates the history of Western European tonality through the prism of the Phrygian cadence and the Phrygian mode. It takes as its starting point the question of how a note that was expressly a final according to medieval and Renaissance modal theory was ab…