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Switching the Backbeat 切换背景
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.28.1.2
Zachary A. Cairns
This article explores manipulations of the nearly ever-present backbeat in rock music from the “long” 1980s. The status of the backbeat as not only metrically consonant but a defining feature of rock meter is discussed within the context of dual-aspect meter. Operating from the assumption that isochronous snare drum hits in rock are heard as a backbeat, placing those snare drum hits on beats other than 2 and 4 creates a particular kind of metrical dissonance, which I refer to as a backbeat switch. I examine two ways in which a backbeat switch occurs, the quick flip and the polymetric pogo. A quick flip usually occurs at a phrase break, where the drummer apparently (but intentionally) “drops a beat” and then resumes the backbeat pattern, thus shifting it “to the left.” A polymetric pogo involves a situation where the backbeat-insistent drummer is pitted against the rest of the band playing in an odd-cardinality meter, resulting in snare hits that bounce back and forth between even-numbered beats and odd-numbered beats every other measure. Short examples by The Cars, Paul Weller, Steve Vai, and Sting are used to demonstrate the article’s fundamental concepts, and longer examples by Tesla, Jerry Goldsmith, and Extreme place these concepts into larger contexts.
这篇文章探讨了20世纪80年代以来摇滚乐中几乎一直存在的背景音乐的手法。在对偶音程的背景下,讨论了背景节拍不仅是音程辅音的地位,而且是摇滚音程的一个定义特征。假设摇滚乐中的等时小鼓敲击声是作为背景音听到的,将这些小鼓敲击放在2和4以外的节拍上会产生一种特殊的韵律不和谐,我称之为背景音切换。我研究了两种发生背景切换的方式,快速翻转和聚合pogo。快速翻转通常发生在短语休息时,鼓手显然(但有意)“放下一个节拍”,然后恢复背景节拍模式,从而将其“向左”移动。聚合pogo涉及这样一种情况,即背景节拍坚持的鼓手与乐队其他成员以奇怪的基数节拍进行对抗,从而产生每隔一小节在偶数拍子和奇数拍子之间来回反弹的圈套安打。The Cars、Paul Weller、Steve Vai和Sting的简短示例用于演示文章的基本概念,而Tesla、Jerry Goldsmith和Extreme的较长示例则将这些概念置于更大的上下文中。
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Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title for Vertigo 眩晕主标题中的三个视听通讯
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.28.1.6
Scott Murphy
Saul Bass and Bernard Herrmann provided the visuals and music, respectively, for the main title of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 movie Vertigo. These artworks correspond with one another in three ways. First, when aligning two dimensions of visual and pitch brightness, a portion of each artwork moves through this two-dimensional space using a similar path. Second, when arranging some of the tonal materials onto a certain space, these materials transform into each other using transformations similar to those that animate some of the visual designs. Third, under partial enharmonic equivalence, these pitch spaces curl into a partly-closed and partly-open shape that closely resembles manipulated visual forms whose looped closure is partially obscured. The first and third ways shed significant light on the film’s narrative, and the first way in particular parallels the film’s central dramatic form.
索尔·巴斯和伯纳德·赫尔曼分别为阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克1958年的电影《迷魂记》的主标题提供了视觉和音乐。这些艺术品在三个方面相互对应。首先,当对齐视觉和音高亮度的两个维度时,每件艺术品的一部分都会使用类似的路径在这个二维空间中移动。其次,当将一些色调材料排列到某个空间上时,这些材料会使用类似于动画化一些视觉设计的转换来相互转换。第三,在部分增强子等价下,这些音高空间卷曲成部分闭合和部分开放的形状,非常类似于被操纵的视觉形式,其环状闭合被部分遮挡。第一种和第三种方式为电影的叙事提供了重要的线索,尤其是第一种方式与电影的中心戏剧形式相似。
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Performing Analysis, Performing Metal 执行分析,执行金属
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.8
Olivia R. Lucas
Light shows at contemporary rock concerts generally create an immersive, multi-sensory experience. In their most sophisticated forms, however, they provide a visual analysis of the music as it unfolds. This paper presents a case study of what I call the analytical light show, by examining how the intricate light shows of extreme metal band Meshuggah contribute an interpretive layer that not only promotes multi-sensory engagement, but also actively guides listeners through songs’ formal structures. Meshuggah’s light shows, created by lighting designer Edvard Hansson, are exhaustively synchronized to the rhythmic patterns of the guitars and drums. Meticulous use of color, brightness, directionality, placement pattern, and beam movement provide additional information about gesture, articulation, and pitch. These analytical light shows provide a three-dimensional visual score that dramatizes rhythms while guiding listeners through each riff. Through this lighting, spatial and bodily metaphors of musical movement—high and low, moving and holding still—are transmuted into visual representation. By presenting analysis and performance simultaneously and as each other, Meshuggah combines technical virtuosity with rock authenticity, and provides another example of what I have called “coercive synesthesia” (Lucas 2014), as the lighting becomes an inextricable part of the musical experience. Beyond the confines of metal culture, I study the analytical light show as an expression of vernacular musical analysis that combines specific analytical and technical expertise with the intuitive, embodied knowledge that experienced music listeners possess.
当代摇滚音乐会的灯光秀通常会给人一种身临其境的多感官体验。然而,在它们最复杂的形式中,它们在音乐展开时提供了一种视觉分析。本文通过研究极端金属乐队Meshuggah复杂的灯光表演如何提供一个解释性的层,不仅促进了多感官的参与,而且还积极地引导听众通过歌曲的形式结构,提出了一个我称之为分析性灯光表演的案例研究。Meshuggah的灯光秀由灯光设计师爱德华·汉森(Edvard Hansson)设计,与吉他和鼓的节奏模式完全同步。对颜色、亮度、方向性、放置模式和光束运动的细致使用提供了有关手势、发音和音高的额外信息。这些分析的灯光表演提供了一个三维的视觉配乐,戏剧性的节奏,同时引导听众通过每个重复片段。通过这种照明,音乐运动的空间和身体隐喻——高和低,移动和保持静止——被转化为视觉表现。通过同时呈现分析和表演,Meshuggah将技术精湛与摇滚真实性相结合,并提供了我所谓的“强制通感”(Lucas 2014)的另一个例子,因为灯光成为音乐体验中不可分割的一部分。在金属文化的范围之外,我研究了分析灯光秀,将其作为一种乡土音乐分析的表达,将具体的分析和技术专长与经验丰富的音乐听众所拥有的直观、具体的知识相结合。
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Onset and Contiguity 发作与邻接
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.2
Aaron Carter-Enyi, Gilad Rabinovitch
Onset (metric position) and contiguity (pitch adjacency and time proximity) are two melodic features that contribute to the salience of individual notes (core tones) in a monophonic voice or polyphonic texture. Our approach to reductions prioritizes contextual features like onset and contiguity. By awarding points to notes with such features, our process selects core tones from melodic surfaces to produce a reduction. Through this reduction, a new form of musical pattern discovery is possible that has similarities to Gjerdingen’s (".fn_cite_year($gjerdingen_2007).") galant schemata. Recurring n-grams (scale degree skeletons) are matched in an algorithmic approach that we have tested manually (with a printed score and pen and paper) and implemented computationally (with symbolic data and scripted algorithms in MATLAB). A relatively simple method successfully identifies the location of all statements of the subject in Bach’s Fugue in C Minor (BWV 847) identified by Bruhn (".fn_cite_year($bruhn_1993).") and the location of all instances of the Prinner and Meyer schemata in Mozart’s Sonata in C Major (K. 545/i) identified by Gjerdingen (".fn_cite_year($gjerdingen_2007)."). We also apply the method to an excerpt by Kirnberger analyzed in Rabinovitch (".fn_cite_year($rabinovitch_2019)."). Analysts may use this flexible method for pattern discovery in reduced textures through software freely accessible at https://www.atavizm.org. While our case studies in the present article are from eighteenth-century European music, we believe our approach to reduction and pattern discovery is extensible to a variety of musics.
起始音(度位)和邻接音(音高邻接和时间邻接)是两种旋律特征,有助于单音或复音结构中单个音符(核心音调)的突出性。我们的减少方法优先考虑上下文特征,如开始和邻接。通过给具有这些特征的音符打分,我们的过程从旋律表面选择核心音调来产生减音。通过这种还原,一种新的音乐模式发现形式可能与Gjerdingen的(“.fn_site_year($gjerdinge_2007).”)galant图式相似。递归n-gram(标度骨架)在一种算法方法中进行匹配,我们已经手动测试了这种方法(用打印的分数和纸笔),并通过计算实现了(用MATLAB中的符号数据和脚本算法)。一种相对简单的方法成功地确定了布鲁恩(“.fn_site_year($Bruhn_1993).”)确定的巴赫《C小调赋格曲》(BWV 847)中主题的所有陈述的位置,以及格耶丁根(“.fn-site_years($gjerdinge_2007)确定的莫扎特《C大调奏鸣曲》(K.545/i)中普林纳和迈耶图式的所有实例的位置。“)。我们还将该方法应用于Kirnberger在Rabinovitch中分析的摘录(”.fn_site_year($Rabinovitch_2019)。“)。分析师可以使用这种灵活的方法,通过在https://www.atavizm.org.虽然我们在本文中的案例研究来自18世纪的欧洲音乐,但我们相信我们的还原和模式发现方法可以扩展到各种音乐。
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Sometimes the Music Wins 有时候音乐会胜出
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.9
Peter Schubert
This study applies Kofi Agawu’s proposed method for analyzing texted music (1992), in which the music and the text are analyzed separately before they are considered together, to an early madrigal by Willaert. Focusing primarily on counterpoint, I offer a detailed study of Willaert’s complex compositional technique. I show that he responded to the poem in many ways, but at the same time he made many purely musical decisions. Finally, I consider what his motivations for these decisions might have been and enumerate musical means he used to respond to the different aspects of his text.
本研究将Kofi Agawu提出的分析文本音乐的方法(1992)应用于Willaert的早期牧歌,该方法在将音乐和文本放在一起考虑之前分别进行分析。主要集中在对位,我提供了威拉尔特的复杂的作曲技术的详细研究。我展示了他在很多方面回应了这首诗,但同时他也做出了很多纯粹的音乐决定。最后,我考虑了他做出这些决定的动机,并列举了他用来回应文本不同方面的音乐手段。
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Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–1971 滚石乐队歌曲中的一般规范、讽刺和真实性,1963-1971
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.1
D. Carter
AABA form was in decline in popular music in the 1960s, yet the Rolling Stones made extensive use of it at a crucial point in their career. In this article I examine the relationship between Jagger-Richards AABA songs released between 1963 and 1971 and established AABA norms. I use a corpus of 138 AABA songs (112 by other artists and 26 by Jagger-Richards) to compare the Stones’ approach to elements such as starting and ending bridge harmonies and verse melodic form with existing defaults. The analysis shows that the band’s approach to AABA in this time period bifurcates into two strategies, each associated with a tempo extreme: either (1) using the form ironically to critique wealth and privilege, or (2) employing it in a sincere way that invokes soul and gospel artists and thereby claims authenticity for the band.
20世纪60年代,AABA的形式在流行音乐中逐渐衰落,但滚石乐队在他们职业生涯的关键时刻广泛使用了它。在本文中,我研究了Jagger-Richards在1963年至1971年间发行的AABA歌曲与建立AABA规范之间的关系。我使用了138首AABA歌曲的语料库(112首来自其他艺术家,26首来自贾格尔-理查兹)来比较滚石乐队在开始和结束桥梁和声以及现有默认值的主旋律形式等元素上的做法。分析表明,乐队在这一时期对AABA的态度分为两种策略,每种策略都与一个极端的节奏有关:要么(1)讽刺地使用这种形式来批评财富和特权,要么(2)以一种真诚的方式使用它,调用灵魂和福音艺术家,从而声称乐队的真实性。
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The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music 流行音乐和声分析的六基小调逻辑
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.4
Trevor de Clercq
Harmonic analyses of popular music typically take the minor tonic to be Roman numeral “one.” By nature, this “one-based” approach requires a new numbering scheme when songs shift between relative key centers. Recent scholarship has argued, however, that popular music often involves ambiguity between relative tonalities, as exemplified in the “Axis” progression, if not sometimes a tonal fusion of two relative keys. I thus argue for the utility of a “six-based” approach to the minor tonic, where the minor tonic is taken to be scale-degree 6. This six-based approach, common among practitioners of popular music as seen in the Nashville number system, avoids the forced choice of a single tonic, and it thus offers a consistent way to track chord function and behavior across shifts between relative key centers. After considering these shifts in a diatonic context on the levels of both phrase and song form, I posit that popular music involves three possible tonalities, together which form a “triple-tonic complex” akin to Stephenson’s three harmonic palettes: a major system, a parallel-minor system, and a relative-minor system. I conclude by considering how chromatic chords common in a major key, such as II and ".fn_flat('')."VII, correspond to their counterparts in the relative minor, IV and ".fn_flat('')."II, thereby collapsing the landscape of diatonic modes into three modal complexes. Overall, the paper serves to reveal the logic of six-based minor—why it is useful, what issues it resolves, and what insights it can afford us about harmonic syntax in popular music.
流行音乐的和声分析通常把小主音当作罗马数字“一”。从本质上讲,这种“以一为基础”的方法需要一种新的编号方案,当歌曲在相对键中心之间移动时。然而,最近的学术研究认为,流行音乐经常涉及相对调性之间的模糊,如“轴”的进展,如果不是有时两个相对键的音调融合。因此,我主张使用“六基”方法来处理小主音,其中小主音被认为是音阶6度。这种基于六的方法在流行音乐的实践者中很常见,如在纳什维尔数字系统中看到的,它避免了单一主音的强制选择,因此它提供了一种一致的方法来跟踪和弦的功能和在相对键中心之间转换的行为。在考虑了乐句和歌曲形式在全音阶背景下的这些变化之后,我认为流行音乐包括三种可能的调性,它们一起形成了一个“三调性复合体”,类似于斯蒂芬森的三个和声调色板:一个大调系统,一个平行小调系统和一个相对小调系统。最后,我考虑了在大调中常见的半音和弦,如II和“。fn_flat(”)。"VII,对应于相对小调IV和".fn_flat(") "II,从而将全音阶的景观分解为三个模态复合体。总的来说,本文揭示了六基小调的逻辑——为什么它是有用的,它解决了什么问题,以及它能给我们提供什么关于流行音乐和声语法的见解。
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引用次数: 3
Review of Megan Kaes Long, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2020) 回顾梅根·凯斯·朗,听觉谐音:十七世纪之交的音调期望(牛津大学出版社,2020)
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.10
G. Barnett
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Romantic Periods 浪漫主义时期
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.3
Diego Cubero
This article examines the transformation of the period in the early Romantic era. While in Classical periods the end of the antecedent phrase is harmonically closed off from the beginning of the consequent phrase, Romantic periods often join the end of the antecedent to the beginning of the consequent, creating an undivided progression. Voice-leading analyses illustrate three different means of joining the antecedent to the consequent: 1) by overlapping the two phrases, 2) by prolonging and resolving the antecedent’s closing dominant, and 3) by ending the antecedent on a predominant. All three procedures involve converting a dividing dominant into a progressive dominant.
本文考察了早期浪漫主义时期这一时期的变迁。在古典时期,前置乐句的结尾与后序乐句的开头在和声上是封闭的,而浪漫主义时期则经常将前置乐句的结尾与后序乐句的开头连在一起,形成一个不可分割的进段。语音引导分析说明了三种不同的连接先行词和结果词的方法:1)重叠两个短语,2)延长和解决先行词的结束属语,3)在一个属语上结束先行词。这三个过程都涉及到将分属语转化为进属语。
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Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation 反弹:结构支撑、谈判和创造
IF 0.8 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.30535/mto.27.4.5
B. Duinker
This paper presents a comparative recording analysis of the seminal work for solo percussion Rebonds (Iannis Xenakis, 1989), in order to demonstrate how performances of a musical work can reveal—or even create—aspects of musical structure that score-centered analysis cannot illuminate. In doing so I engage with the following questions. What does a pluralistic, dynamic conception of structure look like for Rebonds? How do interpretive decisions recast performers as agents of musical structure? When performances diverge from the score in the omission of notes, the softening of accents, the insertion of dramatic tempo changes, or the altering of entire passages, do conventions that arise out of those performance practices become part of the structural fabric of the work? Are these conventions thus part of the Rebonds “text”?
本文对独奏打击乐Rebonds的开创性作品进行了对比录音分析(Iannis Xenakis, 1989),以展示音乐作品的表演如何揭示——甚至创造——以乐谱为中心的分析无法阐明的音乐结构方面。在这样做时,我涉及以下问题。一个多元的、动态的结构概念对Rebonds来说是什么样的?解释性决定如何将表演者重塑为音乐结构的代理人?当演奏偏离乐谱,省略音符,弱化重音,插入戏剧性的节奏变化,或改变整个段落时,由这些演奏实践产生的惯例是否成为作品结构结构的一部分?这些惯例是Rebonds“文本”的一部分吗?
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