[i]Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music[/i], by Joel Lester

01 October 1990 Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music, by Joel Lester. New York: Norton, 1989. xi + 304 pp. ISBN 0-393-95762-4 The marked diversity of twentieth-century music offers great challenges to those involved in the study and teaching of this...

Motivic Continuity in the Instrumental Suites, Sonatas, and Partitas of J. S. Bach

01 May 2020 the first part of a musical oration that deals with the invention of musical ideas (i.e., motivic material).5See Joel Lester, Bach’s Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 42; David Schulenberg, The...

J.S. Bach Teaches Us How to Compose: Four Pattern Preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier

01 October 1998 V/5; facsimile edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959). 5A discussion of Rameau's ideas on cadences appears in Joel Lester, Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), Chapter 3. 6An English...

Reading, Interpreting, Translating: Three transcriptions of a Bach Chorale

12 December 2016 of making analytical claims, then it should likewise be an effective means of critiquing them. This is the point that Joel Lester makes when he asks rhetorically “for what power can an analytical assertion carry if clearly contradicted by a performance...

Performance Inquiry and Cognitive Science: A Search for Common Ground

01 October 2008 Introduction The last decade has offered a surge in scholarship on music performance. Scholars interested in music performance can draw from a range of perspectives. Ethnomusicologists examine the performed activity of music1 as a social and cultural...

Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance

01 October 1993 or explicitly addresses the question of how analysis can benefit performers, a stimulating and compelling essay by Joel Lester approaches the analysis/performance relationship conversely, exploring ways in which different performance interpretations can...

Schenkerian Analysis, Metaphor, and Performance

01 October 2007 analysis. 2As a consequence, one can compare an analysis and a performance in a manner similar to comparing two analyses; Joel Lester does precisely that in "Performance and Analysis," in which he compares Schenker's and Horowitz's structural readings...

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Music, 293–99; however, I do not believe these interpretations to be entirely contradictory in a repertory that, as Joel Lester and others have put it, operates between modes and keys. Smither discusses this type of repetition as a rhetorical device in...

Analysis and Performing Mozart

01 October 2011 What sorts of analysis can assist performers of Mozart's music? My answer . . . just about everything.1 This paper offers various analytical perspectives that bear on performance issues in Mozart as I have applied them when teaching and coaching...

Patterning Beyond Hypermeter

01 October 1992 the factors that produce meter, and discern the causes and the limits of metric and hypermetric effects. I think that Joel Lester is essentially correct in asserting that meter in most tonal music is a relatively local, surface phenomenon, and that...

A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music

01 October 2001 Over years of teaching pitch-class-set theory and analysis as part of undergraduate twentieth-century theory courses, I have often reflected (and heard perceptive students remark) on an apparent shortcoming of the system. At that stage of their...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

Star-Spangled Bibliography

01 October 1972 Relevance, anyone? Change? Concern for the "now" world of music in the United States? "Deep forays" out of the music library "into neighboring disciplines, into social and regional history, into history of ideas, science, and technology, into the study...

The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style

01 October 1987 Readings in Schenker Analysis and Other Approaches, ed. Maury Yeston (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 72-93, and Joel Lester, "Articulation of Tonal Structures as a Criterion for Analytic Choices," Music Theory Spectrum 1 (1979):67-79....

Analysis for Performance: Teaching a Method for Practical Application

02 October 2006 One of the more difficult tasks facing the college music theory teacher is linking analysis with performance. Too often students do not understand the connection between the analytical techniques they learn in theory classes and the decisions they make...

[i]Linear-Derived Harmony[/i], by Arthur Komar

01 October 1993 Leo Kraft, Gradus (Norton, 1987-90); Aldwell/Schachter, Harmony and Voice Leading (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), and Joel Lester, Harmony in Tonal Music (Knopf, 1982). All of these texts, including Komar's, could be described as Schenker-oriented,...