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Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
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This dissertation aims to develop an approach to analyzing common-practice repertoire based on the dynamic interplay of centripetal and centrifugal forces. It aims at interpreting various kinds of chromaticism and modulation in terms of the interaction of forces moving away from the tonic or principal key (centrifugal) and those returning to it (centripetal). Centripetal forces also correspond to the force of cadential substantiation of keys, not only the principal key, which I call temporal-centripetal force; temporal-centrifugal forces correspond to the phenomena of tonal instability, of motion through multiple regions.
The dynamic interplay and counterbalancing of these forces is a core …