Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an
intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and …

Extended tonality is a central system that characterizes the music from the 19th up to the
21st century, including styles like popular music, film music or Jazz. Developing from …

Numerous late twentieth-century composers grappled with the problem of using triads in non-
tonal ways. Alfred Schnittke's atonal music of 1974–85 offers a solution by relying on three …

Notions of symmetry, balance, and proportion have appeared prominently in the discourse
on sonata form since its origin in the eighteenth century. One clear but insufficiently studied …

We begin with an anecdote from one of our contributors: Shortly after receiving my PhD, I
was hired into a one-year position. In this position, I was tasked with teaching within a pre …

Дисертаційне дослідження присвячено вивченню композиторських технологій в
американському ігровому кінематографі. У роботі визначено та диференційовано …

The thematic organization of musical reprises and recapitulations has not received as much
attention as that of expositions. One reason for this is the assumption that recapitulations are …

The key of E-flat major elicited idiosyncratic chromatic treatment from Haydn, Mozart, and
Beethoven. For instance, several of their pieces in that key feature Cb/B. A myriad of …

Richard Cohn claims that several instances from western art music composed before 1950
associate the hexatonic-pole triadic progression (H) with the Freudian uncanny, when the …

This dissertation considers how composers deviate from strict chromatic sequences in post-
tonal triadic repertoire and introduces multi-dimensional voice-leading spaces that are …