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 …

ABSTRACT Though Raymond Monelle ends his survey of the pianto with the music of
Wagner, recent writings have illustrated the ongoing presence of the topic in the music of the …

For madrigal composers making every effort to follow the words, the transition from one
phrase to the next presented a stumbling block. Transitions in sixteenth‐century polyphony …

Chaya Czernowin's opera Pnima… ins innere is about the encounter between a young
Israeli boy and his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor so traumatized by his past that he …

The current study considers the interaction between the musical narrative and the dramatic
narrative (provided by the libretti) in three one-act operas: Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge …

This study focuses on the performer's guide to the two piano sonatas by Carl Vine. The
musical analysis of both sonatas is from the performer's point of view and does not have a …

Although ars nova motets have traditionally been viewed as" purely mathematical" due to
their highly structured forms, recent studies by Margaret Bent, Jacques Boogaart and others …

This article offers analyses of three songs by Blondel de Nesle: Onques maiz nus hom ne
chanta, En tous tens que vente bise and A l'entree de la saison. It proposes that close …

This article offers a new view of Robert Gjerdingen's galant schemata by examining
underlying principles for the generation of the skeletal contrapuntal strings that may be …

This dissertation combines traditional music-theoretical approaches with theories of reading
in literature to develop a method for an understanding of the significance of topics in music …