An Issue between Contemporary Theory and Modern Compositional Practice A Study of Joseph Straus’s Laws of Atonal Voice Leading and Harmony using Webern’s Opus 12/2 and Crawford’s String Quartet Mvt. 3

In his recent research project, music theorist Joseph Straus extends the traditional notions of smooth voice leading and the quality of harmony in tonal music to describe atonal voice leading and harmony. To achieve this goal, Straus proposes a theory called fuzzy transformations to analyze atonal m...

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Main Author: Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual do Paraná 2013-12-01
Series:Revista Vortex
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Online Access:http://periodicos.unespar.edu.br/index.php/vortex/article/view/427