Sunday, January 10, 2016

Tonal frames in eighteenth and nineteenth century music: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords

Title: Tonal frames in eighteenth and nineteenth century music

Link: Tonal frames

Abstract: Tonal frames are understood here as schemata comprising the "a" level elements of a time-span or prolongation reduction in the system of Lerdahl and Jackendoff, Generalized Theory of Tonal Music (1983), as amended and extended by Lerdahl (Tonal Pitch Space (2001)). I use basic forms from these sources as a starting point but call them tonal frames in order to make a clear distinction, because I have a stricter view of the role of register.

Keywords: Schubert, Valses sentimentales, Deutscher, D366, Lerdahl