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Over the last decade, a handful of music theorists have used neo-Riemannian theory to systematically identify and examine many of the unusual chord progressions that have become idiomatic markers of Hollywood’s harmonic language. Building on conventions established in nineteenth…

Discussions of interpretation and performance practice often address specific historical periods, offering analyses of musical practices within a predetermined set of dates, such as ornamentation in the Baroque period, articulation as applied in the Classical era, and phrasing “…