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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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EDWARD ELGAR’S EXTENDED TONAL PROCEDURES—AN INQUIRY INTO ELGAR’S CHROMATIC REALM

Rodrigues, Higo Henrique 01 January 2014 (has links)
This study aims to examine the ways in which English composer Edward Elgar (1857–1934) expanded common-practice tonality; it shows how Elgar employed harmonic structures and syntax in an innovative manner through specific extended-tonal techniques such as the use of chromatic-third relations (both harmonically and as a tonal plan), harmonic substitutions, and local ambiguous sonorities that at times lead to tonal ambiguity. The system that Elgar expanded upon has been called “Classical diatonic tonality”, which was extended when late nineteenth-century composers such as Elgar infused their music with chromaticism. Through an investigation of Elgar’s extended tonal techniques one can come to a better appreciation of his late nineteenth-century harmonic vocabulary. It has been well documented that Elgar modeled his music after that of Wagner and his Germanic contemporaries (from Mendelssohn to Brahms), so that the Elgarian tonal language is one possible projection of a post-Wagnerian extended-tonal discourse. The discussion presented here will survey those parts of Elgar’s tonal language that he learned from his Germanic contemporaries, thereby establishing the context for his own unique chromatic compositional style. This study of Elgar’s work therefore further represents a study of the broader impact of post-Wagnerian chromaticism on late nineteenth-century English extended tonality.
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Es/D# entscheidet der Kontext?: Impulse zu einem meta-physikalischen Verständnis musikalischer Geistestätigkeit

Noll, Thomas 22 September 2023 (has links)
Die Untersuchungen dieses Beitrages gehen von dem Gedanken aus, daß sich bestimmte Eigenschaften musikalischen Erlebens erst erklären lassen, wenn man grundlegende Eigenschaften von Geistestätigkeit theoretisch erschlossen hat. Entsprechend skizziert Abschnitt 2 einen Ansatz zur Modellierung von Geistestätigkeit, welcher das Fechner’sche Gesetz zum Bindeglied zwischen der transzendenten Geistestätigkeit und ihrem immanenten Erleben erklärt. Mit der Charakterisierung einer modellhaften Geistestätigkeit als ›meta-physikalisch‹ wird dieser eine physikalische Kompetenz zugeschrieben. Konkret geht es um das Vollziehen kanonischer Transformationen, die von zentraler Bedeutung für das Verständnis von Bewegung in der Theoretischen Physik sind. Das Fechner’sche Gesetz vermittelt entsprechend zwischen den Transformationen und ihren infinitisimalen Erzeugenden. Aufgrund der Nichtkommutativität der Transformationengruppe ergeben sich Diskrepanzen zwischen der transzendenten Tätigkeit und ihrem immanenten Erleben hinsichtlich der Bilanzierung von zusammengesetzten Transformationen. Sie betreffen u.a. die Verrechnung von subjektiven Standpunktwechseln, welche sich in der tonalen Musik bei harmonischen Ausweichungen manifestieren. Musikalischer Untersuchungsgegenstand sind deshalb tonale Ambiguitäten. Abschnitt 3 rekapituliert und vergleicht Analysen von Chopins Prélude op. 28/4 von mehreren Autoren und sammelt dabei Indizien für das Bestehen einer genuinen Ambiguität, welche sich auf mehreren Beschreibungsebenen manifestiert. In Bezug auf den Kontrapunkt wird die Ambiguität vor dem Hintergrund einer Unterscheidung von (diatonischen) Schritten und (chromatischen) Alterationen gedeutet. In Bezug auf die Harmoniebewegung geschieht dies vor dem Hintergrund einer Unterscheidung von Fundamentschritten und virtuellen Verrückungen des tonalen Bezugs. / The investigations in this article are based on the idea that certain characteristics of musical experience can only be explained when fundamental characteristics of mental activity have been theoretically opened up. Correspondingly, Section 2 outlines an approach to the modeling of mental activity. It explains Fechner’s law as the link between transcendent mental activity and its immanent experience. With the characterization modelled mental activity as “meta-physical” a physical competence is assigned to it. It consists in the performance of canonical transformations, which are of central importance for the understanding of motion in theoretical physics. Fechner’s law mediates between the transformations and their infinitimal generators, accordingly. Due to the non-commutativity of the transformation group, there are discrepancies between the transcendent activity and its immanent experience with regard to the accounting of composite transformations. These involve the comprehension of changes of the subjective point of view. In tonal music they are manifest in local displacements of the tonic. The music-theoretical investigation therefore focusses on tonal ambiguities. Section 3 recapitulates and compares analyses of Chopin’s Prelude op. 28/4 by several authors and thereby collects evidence of the existence of a genuine ambiguity, which appears on several levels of description. With regard to counterpoint, the ambiguity is interpreted on the background of a distinction between (diatonic) steps and (chromatic) alterations. With regard to the harmony movement, this is being done on the background of a distinction between fundamental steps and virtual shifts in the tonal reference.

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