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Tonicizations, Periods, And Period-Like Structures In The Music Of Dvořák, Xieyi Zhang
Tonicizations, Periods, And Period-Like Structures In The Music Of Dvořák, Xieyi Zhang
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Discussions of the tonal construction of parallel periods usually focus on the standard eighteenth-century layout in which the cadence at the end of the antecedent is either an imperfect authentic cadence (IAC) or half cadence (HC) in the main key. In exceptional cases, antecedents may deploy a reinterpreted HC—i.e., a perfect authentic cadence (PAC) in V that is reinterpreted as a tonic-key HC. Especially in music of the nineteenth century, however, one also often finds periods in which the antecedent concludes with a PAC in a key other than V. In these modulating antecedents, cadences of the antecedent and consequent …
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
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 …