A computer-aided inquiry on music communication : the rules of music / Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte, Carlo Jacoboni.
| Author/creator | Baroni, Mario |
| Other author | Dalmonte, Rossana author. |
| Other author | Jacoboni, Carlo, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2003. |
| Description | xv, 549 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 92 Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 92. ^A231525 |
| Contents | Part one. For a theory of musical grammar. The concept of grammar in music. Implicit and explicit knowledge ; Production and reception: the problem of musical communication ; Composition, listening, grammar -- Grammar as an ordered system of rules. Grammar and morphological definitions ; Grammar and rules of syntax ; The fields of application of the rules -- The order of the rules: structural hierarchies and macroform -- Expressive functions of grammar. Rules, choices, exceptions ; Grammar and hermeneutics ; The rules and syntactic contexts ; The 'correctness' of a musical grammar ; The problem of percentages of choice -- Music and cognitive apparatus. Verbal grammar and musical grammar -- Musical rules and cognitive laws -- Grammar, style and analysis. The contribution of analysis to grammar ; Dynamics of change in musical grammar ; The contribution of grammar to analysis -- Computer verification of rules. The heuristic functions of the computer application ; Analysis via synthesis ; The statistical apparatus of the program ; The model of the aria as a theoretical tool -- Part two. A musical grammar: Legrenzi's arias. The repertory -- Processing the text. Major and minor repetitions ; The metrical-syntactic tree ; Major repetitions, or rules governing the structure of the form ; Minor repetitions -- The macroform. Segmentation into phrases ; The tonal plan ; Cadences -- The construction of the melodic phrase. Structural principles of melody ; The melodies of the Legrenzi arias -- Harmony. Harmonic analysis ; The main harmonies of the cycle ; Second-level harmonies ; Harmonic functions and chords ; Forbidden harmonic successions ; Cadence chords ; Compatibility between melody and harmony ; Melodic segments depending on the harmony ; Modulations ; Repeated phrases -- The melodic line of the bass. The general problem ; Division into phrases ; The melodic line of the bass ; Compatibility with the harmony ; Compatibility with the upper melody ; A digression on the grammar rules and the production process ; Links between phrases -- The Legre computer program. Choices and random numbers ; From the grammar to the program ; The general program ; The Avvio module ; The Legre3 module ; The Musica module ; The Profili module ; The Harmon module ; The Harmon2 module ; The Basso module ; The Superf module ; The Stampa module -- Part three. Ten centuries of melody. Problems of melodic theory. Foreword to part three ; How to begin a discourse on melody ; Aims of the various treatises ; Primary melodic procedures ; The development of melody ; Division of the melody into parts ; The concepts of correctness and value ; The implication-realization model -- Melodic contours in pre-tonal monody. Gregorian chant ; The melody of the Trouvères ; Machault's [Machaut's] monodic virelais -- Melodic profiles in pre-tonal religious polyphony. Machault's mass ; The Hercules Dux Ferraiae Mass of Josquin Depres ; The Ecce Sacerdos Magnus Mass of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Melodic profile in the XVIII century. Melodic figures depending on harmony ; The choice of the sample ; Syllabic phrases ; The melodic profile of extensive vocalizations -- The Romantic Lied. Anacrusis ; Cadence ; The body of the phrase -- Melody between the XIX and XX centuries. Segmentation into phrases ; Anacrusis ; Kernel scale and chromaticism ; Modification of figures through chromaticism ; Modification of the inversion figure ; Modification of figures by addition of notes (figure within a figure) ; Register transposition ; Metamorphoses of the T figure -- Appendices. Appendix A. The 31 arias of the Legrenzi sample ; Appendix B. Metrical-syntactic trees of the verbal texts ; Appendix C. Macroformal analysis of the aria ; Appendix D. Analyses of Legrenzi's melodic phrases ; Appendix E. Examples of arias produced by the Legre program. |
| Abstract | Integrating contemporary research in the domains of analysis, stylistic analysis, semiotics, and approaches based on cognitive science, this study of 31 arias of Giovanni Legrenzi, a minor composer of the Baroque era, formulates 118 rules which describe the texts of the arias and their formal, melodic, and harmonic properties as well as the movement of the bass. The rules are then applied to a sample of melodies culled from ten centuries of Western music. A computer program that tests the validity of these rules is also described. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-536) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2002030936 |
| ISBN | 0773469281 |
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