{"title":"Attending to Free Rhythm","authors":"Mitchell Ohriner","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the concept of entrainment in connection with a musical performance often described as lacking meter, or, phrased more positively, possessing “free rhythm” or “flowing rhythm.”1 Entrainment—a concept ever more visible in music scholarship—refers to a synchronization of two or more rhythmic systems that persist through perturbation.2 As Justin London notes, entrainment is not a specifically musical phenomenon, and can also refer to the coordinated actions of athletes or circadian rhythms.3 In musical terms, these rhythmic systems may be synchronized among different groups of performers, different performers within a group, or different limbs within a single performer.4","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124858231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Day the Ear Stood Still: Aural Skills with a Theremin","authors":"E. Niedermaier, Kyle Adams","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.05","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most defining characteristics of Mary Wennerstrom’s legacy is her commitment to pedagogy at the highest level. But above and beyond simply advocating for excellence in teaching, she also advocates for and supports innovation. Though Prof. Wennerstrom maintained a commitment to upholding the highest standards of auraland keyboard-skills pedagogy, she continued throughout her career to explore new and exciting ways to connect with students and to expand their hearing. At times, these innovations were not across-the-board general strategies, but highly individualized solutions designed to tackle unique learning obstacles. Thus, it was not surprising that she wholeheartedly supported the project that we describe in this article: using a Theremin to assist in sight-singing for a student with a severe disability. The pedagogical vignette presented here is not intended to make grand claims about aural-skills pedagogy or disability studies, but rather to present a simple case study in one student’s experience, in the hopes that it might encourage future pedagogues to consider similar routes. The challenge presented by this student’s disability forced us to consider the factors that make the human voice the best instrument for in-class sight-reading activities, in order to enable us to find an adequate substitute for it: the voice lacks a consistent pitch spectrum, a discrete","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123799238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphonic Variations on an African Air, op. 63: Form, Techniques, Topics","authors":"J. L. Snyder","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.01","url":null,"abstract":"The theme-and-variations genre has a long history: having originated in late Renaissance Spain, it has continued to attract composers to the present day. During that span composers have developed numerous techniques for creating variations and for organizing them into sets.1 One feature of the genre that has remained a constant challenge for composers is the form’s paratactic nature. As Jan LaRue puts it, “in the rigid pattern variations found commonly from the late Renaissance to the early twentieth century, no growth [i.e., formal process] is less imaginative ... the inevitable repetition ... turns the growth into a sort of musical link-sausage.”2 But of course the best composers have always been able to counter this tendency, producing highly effective works of art. Analysis of variation sets must consider both the individual variations and the set as a whole. Robert Hatten has suggested that the character variation provides fertile soil for topical analysis, which","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123139450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intimations of Heroism in a Pastoral Milieu: On the Opening Section of the Siegfried Idyll","authors":"Mark Anson-Cartwright","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.06","url":null,"abstract":"Wagner’s Siegfried idyll is a hybrid work that uniquely combines symphonic and chamber styles, ternary and sonata forms, and pastoral and heroic themes (or topics). Conceived as a birthday gift for his wife Cosima, this symphonic fantasy contains both quiet, pastoral passages and exuberant episodes from the life of the hero, Siegfried. It also celebrates the domestic bliss that Richard and Cosima shared at Tribschen during the composition of act 3 of Siegfried, from which most of the themes in the Siegfried Idyll are drawn. Wagner hints at its ambiguous nature not only in the title, which links a hero’s name with a pastoral genre, but also in the dedicatory poem prefaced to the score, where he writes of “the hero’s world [that] magically [became] an idyll for us” (“die Heldenwelt uns zaubernd zum Idylle”).1 As this line suggests, Wagner aimed in this piece to reconcile the heroic and pastoral worlds. The dramatic motivation for that reconciliation, as I shall argue, arises in the opening section, where intimations of Siegfried’s heroic destiny threaten to destroy the quiet pastoral mood. Before going into analytical detail, I shall briefly sketch the historical context for this unique work, which Wagner composed in late 1870. Its composition closely followed several landmark events in Wagner’s artistic and personal life. Having composed the Ring up to the end of","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127572012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical and Philosophical Reflections Regarding Aural Skills Assessment","authors":"Stanley V. Kleppinger","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123908539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Stravinsky from the Wennerstrom Anthology","authors":"R. Hatten","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Let me begin by acknowledging Dr. Mary Wennerstrom’s profound impact on my decision to become a music theorist. An inspiring teacher for several courses and independent studies during my master’s and doctoral coursework from 1973–75 and 1976–78 at Indiana University, she soon became my model for what a music theory teacher can achieve. Her graduate classes on variations and theory pedagogy were legendary, but so was her undergraduate teaching. I was one of her associate instructors for the Classical-Romantic undergraduate semester, during which I learned as much or more as her students did. When Allen Forte’s The Structure of Atonal Music first appeared in 1973, I immediately began working through it page by page, in an independent study the next fall with Dr. Wennerstrom.1 But sadly, I never had the opportunity to take a twentieth-century course with her. Nevertheless, her Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music became the vehicle through which she continued to influence my pedagogical development, as I designed twentieth-century undergraduate core courses at Michigan, Penn State, and Indiana (where I returned to teach from 1999 to 2011).2 Her choice of examples was pedagogically ideal in so many ways that, despite supplementing her collection with excerpts","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126994906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Incompatibilities: Melodic, Harmonic, and Formal Dissonance in Ravel's Duo and Violin Sonata","authors":"Jennifer P. Beavers","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.32.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Ravel’s approach to composition after the First World War began to integrate certain contemporary techniques, such as austere textures and exposed dissonance, while maintaining many of his “classical” debts, particularly his penchant for sonata form and functional bass lines. His use of the sonata design in the Duo for Violin and Cello (1920–22) and Violin Sonata (1923–27) provided him a template in which formal problems were created and worked through. As Peter Kaminsky suggests, “the problem that Ravel chooses to solve in a given work extends to and indeed is central to the formal process itself.”1 Sigrun Heinzelmann likewise argues that Ravel’s formal manipulations are central to his compositional process.2 Through the integration of Hepokoski and Darcy’s rotational design theories with a specialized Schenkerian approach, Heinzelmann highlights Ravel’s interesting approach to the sonata medium in his prewar period—most notably his String Quartet and Piano Trio.3 In part, both analysts reveal ways in which Ravel subverts expectations. For Kaminksy, Ravel’s “compositional wizardry” often involves melodic emphasis, nuanced superimpositions, and form-generating","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"152 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133157423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultivating the Seed: The Compositional History of the Solo ’Cello Part in Chou Wen-chung’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra","authors":"Mary I. Arlin","doi":"10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/INDITHEOREVI.33.1-2.04","url":null,"abstract":"In 1978, Chou Wen-chung (b. 1923) completed a draft of the solo part of his ’Cello Concerto, but it lay dormant until he took it up again and completed it fourteen years later. The 1992 version differs markedly from the earlier draft, causing one scholar to claim that the finished product “bears only a slight resemblance to it.”1 Yet Chou himself claims that “original ideas and some of the material for the","PeriodicalId":363428,"journal":{"name":"Indiana Theory Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116646921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}