Abstract Wye Allanbrook (1983) famously observed a humorous allusion to the minuet style in the aria “Se vuol ballare” from Le Nozze di Figaro. This article provides a close reading of the opening measures of Figaro’s cavatina, investigating how this music may or may not have elicited associations with minuet music for Mozart’s intended audience. A close comparison of the musical features of “Se vuol ballare”—including phrase structure, hypermeter, and rhythm—with those of danceable minuets of the time will show that Mozart’s tune is anything but a prototypical member of the category. Instead of (or in addition to) a minuet, historical listeners might have perceived an allusion to another familiar dance: the contredanse. Such an association would have triggered different ideas about social class and afforded an alternative ironic reading of the passage. By challenging a widely accepted interpretation, this case study addresses the broader issue of how to identify topics (as a cognitive process of categorization) and explores avenues for practicing topical analysis in increasingly transparent and historically sensitive ways.
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Journal Article An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege Get access An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege. New Material Histories of Music Series, edited by James Q. Davies and Nicholas Mathew. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021, ix + 281 pages. Lee Cannon-Brown Lee Cannon-Brown cannonbrown@g.harvard.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 2023, Pages 168–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac032 Published: 04 January 2023
一种不自然的态度:魏玛音乐思想的现象学。《一种不自然的态度:魏玛音乐思想中的现象学》本杰明·斯蒂格著。新材料的音乐历史系列，编辑詹姆斯·q·戴维斯和尼古拉斯·马修。芝加哥和伦敦:芝加哥大学出版社，2021年，ix + 281页。Lee Cannon-Brown Lee Cannon-Brown cannonbrown@g.harvard.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者音乐理论谱，第45卷，第1期，2023年春季，168-172页，https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac032出版日期:2023年1月4日
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This article studies the values animating the profession of music theory in the North American academy. Focusing on the creation and development of the field’s institutional home, the Society for Music Theory, Inc., I argue that professional music theory’s homemaking project was first built—and continues to operate—on exclusionary and assimilationist world-building practices. To conclude, I ask how we might pursue homemaking and world-building otherwise in coalition with contemporary abolitionist scholarship.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190236984.001.0001
M. Duguay
This is the second of four volumes in a multi-authored series of analytical essays on music by women composers from Hildegard of Bingen to the twenty-first century. Volume 2 presents detailed studies of compositions written between 1900 and 1960 by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smyth, Ruth Crawford (Seeger), Florence B. Price, Galina Ustvolskaya, J. M. Beyer, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer, followed by an in-depth analysis of a single representative composition, occasionally including other works where comparison strengthens the analytical argument. The repertoire explored by the authors includes art song, opera, choral, solo piano, chamber, and orchestral music. To enhance the volume’s accessibility to readers who are not professional music theorists or musicologists, a glossary provides explanations of music-theoretical terms used in the book. The collection is designed to challenge and stimulate a wide range of readers. For academics, these thorough analytical studies can open new paths into unexplored research areas in music theory and musicology. Post-secondary instructors may be inspired by the insights offered here to include new works in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses in early twentieth-century music or women and music. Finally, for performers, conductors, and music broadcasters, these thoughtful analyses can offer enriched understandings of this repertoire and suggest fresh, new programming possibilities to share with listeners—an endeavor of discovery for all those interested in twentieth-century music.
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