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    Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form

    Organized Time by Yust, Jason;

    Rhythm, Tonality, and Form

    Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 12 July 2018

    • ISBN 9780190696481
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages440 pages
    • Size 257x183x30 mm
    • Weight 957 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm, and form under a common idea of structured time. This is a major advance in the field of music theory, leading to new theoretical approaches to topics such as closure, hypermeter, and formal function.

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    Organized Time is the first attempt to unites theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form-author Jason Yust demonstrates that tonal music exhibits similar hierarchical organization in each of these dimensions. Yust develops a network model for temporal structure with an application of mathematical graph theory, which leads ultimately to musical applications of a multi-dimensional polytope called the associahedron. A wealth of analytical examples includes not only the familiar tonal canon-J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schumann-but also lesser known masters of the musical Enlightenment such as C.P.E. and J.C. Bach, Boccherini, and Johann Gottlieb Graun.

    Yust's approach has wide-ranging ramifications across music theory, enabling new approaches to musical closure, hypermeter, formal function, syncopation, and rhythmic dissonance, as well as historical observations about the development of sonata form and the innovations of Haydn and Beethoven. Making a forceful argument for the independence of musical modalities and for multivalent a approach to music analysis, Organized Time establishes the aesthetic importance of structural disjunction, the conflict of structure in different modalities, in numerous analytical contexts.

    Astonishing in both its ambition and its achievement. [Organized Time] offers a theory of tonal music that treats harmony, rhythm, and form as separate dimensions that might either reinforce or contradict each other, providing an appealing notation system that permits direct comparison of these dimensions. It profoundly rethinks aspects of tonal theory that we had thought pretty well settled. The theoretical framework is powerful and the analyses-of both familiar and unfamiliar tonal works-are deeply revealing.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contents
    Introduction
    Time and Landscape
    Dimension
    Chapter 1: Rhythmic Hierarchy and the Network Model
    1.1 Metric and Rhythmic Structures as Temporal Hierarchies
    1.2 Rhythmic Classes and Transformations
    1.3 Inferring Rhythmic Hierarchies
    1.4 Metricality
    Chapter 2: Tonal Structure
    2.1 Melodic Structure
    2.2 Backgrounds
    2.3 Repetition
    2.4 Keys
    2.5 Tonal Models for Binary Forms
    Chapter 3: Formal Structure
    3.1 Elements of Form: Repetition, Contrast, Fragmentation
    3.2 Small Baroque Forms
    3.3 Expositions and the Secondary Theme
    3.4 Interactions of Form and Tonal Structure
    Chapter 4: Structural Networks and the Experience of Musical Time
    4.1 Depth, Distance, and the Classification of Structural Shapes
    4.2 A Phenomenology of Structure
    4.3 Center, Skew, and Bias
    4.4 Splitting and Disjunction
    Chapter 5: Timespan Intervals
    5.1 Large-Scale Rhythmic Design in Bach's F Minor Fugue
    5.2 Classification of Timespan Intervals
    5.3 Hypermetric Hemiola in a Bach Prelude
    5.4 Transformations of Rhythmic Structures
    Chapter 6: Hypermeter
    6.1 Hypermeter in the Eye of the Beholder
    6.2 Some Criteria for Hypermetric Analysis
    6.3 Functions of Hypermetric Shift in Haydn's Symphonies
    6.4 Indefinite Hypermeter and Hypermetric Reinterpretation
    Chapter 7: Hypermeter, Form, and Closure
    7.1 Hypermetric Placement in Cadential Syntax
    7.2 Mozart's Afterbeat Melodic Ideas
    7.3 Main Theme Endings in Haydn's Symphonies
    7.4 Elided Cadences and Expositional Closure
    7.5 Beethoven's Open Expositions
    Chapter 8: Syncopation
    8.1 Contrapuntal and Tonal versus Structural Syncopation
    8.2 Contrapuntal Syncopation and Metrical Dissonance
    8.3 Hypermetric Syncopation and Contrapuntal Displacement
    8.4 Rhythmic Process as Formal Process in Beethoven
    Chapter 9: Counterpoint
    9.1 Rhythmic Counterpoint
    9.2 Brahms's Use of Rhythmic Irregularity and Rhythmic Counterpoint
    9.3 Counterpoint of Tonal Structures
    9.4 Formal Counterpoint
    Chapter 10: Harmony Simplified
    10.1 Harmonic Syntax and Structure
    10.2 Voice Leading on the Tonnetz
    10.3 Enharmonicism
    Chapter 11: Reforming Formal Analysis
    11.1 Tonal Disjunction and the Phrase
    11.2 Ritornello Form in the Eighteenth-Century Symphony
    11.3 Form(s) and Recipes
    11.4 Outside the Frame
    Chapter 12: Tonal-Formal Disjunction
    12.1 High-Level Tonal-Formal Disjunction in Sonata Form
    12.2 Alternate Subordinate Keys
    12.3 Disjunction in the Exposition: Modulating Subordinate Themes
    12.4 Off-Tonic Recapitulations
    Chapter 13: Graph Theory for Temporal Structure
    13.1 Planarity and Cycles
    13.2 Direction and Confluence
    13.3 Chords and Holes
    13.4 Reduction Trees, Event Trees, and Spanning Trees over MOPs
    13.5 Spanning Trees and the Cycle/Edge-Cut Algebras
    Chapter 14: A Geometry of Temporal Structure
    14.1 Associahedra
    14.2 Higher-Dimensional Associahedra and their Facets
    14.3 Evenness
    Epilogue

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