"So You Want to Write a Canon?" An Historically-Informed New Approach for the Modern Theory Class

01 October 2008 imitative writing, especially in contexts where voice entries occur after short time intervals. Studies in the 1990s by Robert Gauldin, Robert Morris, and Alan Gosman propose abstract algorithmic schemes for writing canons.7 All three studies contain...

Beethoven, Tristan, and The Beatles

01 October 1990 D major chord was missing, having been "mixed" in the previous songs. Refer to p. 183 of Mark Lewisohn (1988). authors: Robert Gauldin author_ids: 2126 authors: Robert Gauldin author_ids: 2126

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. Appendix I Appendix II I use in this paper the syntactical labels adopted by Robert Gauldin’s, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004), Jane Piper Clendinning &...

The Popular Album as Song Cycle: Paul Simon's [i]Still Crazy After All These Years[/i]

01 October 1992 is the presence of large-scale structural principles spanning a whole album or CD. With a few exceptions (including Robert Gauldin's exemplary analysis of Side Two of the Beatles' "Abbey Road"), current writing on popular music has mainly focused on...

Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You

01 October 1993 the "aeolian cadences" and "pandiatonic clusters" that Mann ascribed to their music.18 In the pages of this journal, Robert Gauldin has recently discussed aspects of the LP Abbey Road in terms of Robert Bailey's double-tonic complex.19 This complex,...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Theory Textbooks Jane Piper Clendinning and Elizabeth West Marvin, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis (2004) Robert Gauldin, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. (2004) Miguel A. Roig-Francoli, Harmony in Context (2003) Stephen Jablonsky,...

An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s [i]Many Many Cadences[/i] for String Quartet

10 January 2018 Abstract Emerging composer Sky Macklay has written a string quartet entitled Many Many Cadences (2014) which inventively combines the basic operations of neo-Riemannian triadic transformations and voice leading (e.g., Parallel (P), Leading-tone (L),...

Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function

03 October 2005 Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function Written by Kevin J. Swinden Symposium Volume 45 Grieg's "The Song of Siri Dale" is a G minor setting in Grieg's op. 66 collection of Norwegian Folk Songs for solo piano....

Introducing the Learning Portfolio into Music Theory Core Pedagogy

01 October 2011 Introduction Undergraduate music programs at North American institutions of higher learning typically require music majors to complete successfully a core grouping of theory courses in order to fulfill degree requirements. These courses are considered...