‘Fishing in the Right Place’: Analytical Examples from the <i>Tonalities</i> Project

Russ, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.0262-5245.2004.00202.x

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“…Anthony Pople coined the term "tonalities" to convey a sense of the multiplicity of practice in harmonic language and tonal organisation in the European music of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (Pople, 2004;Russ, 2004). The term characterised a problem that was the impetus for his development of the "prolongation-analysis" software Tonalities (Pople, 2002) (discussed more fully in §7.5.3).…”

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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa. Comprised of seven chapters, with several musical examples, figures and definitions of terms, this original and accessible book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relationships between music and evolutionary thought. Jan guides the reader through key evolutionary ideas and the development of human musicality, before exploring cultural evolution, evolutionary ideas in musical scholarship, animal vocalisations, music generated through technology, and the nature of consciousness as an evolutionary phenomenon. A unique examination of how evolutionary thought intersects with music, Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music is essential to our understanding of how and why music arose in our species and why it is such a significant presence in our lives.

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“…Premises Anthony Pople's term 'tonalities' was coined to convey a sense of the multiplicity of practice in harmonic language and tonal organization in music of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (Pople 2004;Russ 2004). 1 It neatly characterized a problem which was the impetus for his development of a sophisticated solution, the pitch-class set analytic software known as Tonalities (Pople 2002).…”

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“…6 This extract is chosen because of Pople's and Russ's (implied) view that its tonal ambiguities make it both analytically interesting and theoretically problematic; because its component musemes are relatively easily identified (on both gestalt-psychological and coindexation-determined criteria (Jan 2011)), facilitating the location of antecedents; and because the analysis by Tonalities helps to illuminate several of the issues considered here. I take as my source Example 6a from (Russ 2004), an article which examines a number of ‘analytical examples from the Tonalities project’, some of which (including his Example 6a) manifest HEX, OCT and WT organization (2004, 216–17).…”

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Memetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Tonal Systems in Music

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2015

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Cohn (1996) and Taruskin (1985) consider the increasing prominence during the nineteenth century of harmonic progressions derived from the hexatonic and octatonic pitch collections respectively. This development is clearly evident in music of the third quarter of the century onwards and is a consequence of forces towards non-diatonic organization latent in earlier music. This article conceptualizes such forces as memetic -drawing a distinction between memetic processes in music itself and those in the realm of music theory -and interprets the gradualistic evolution of tonal systems as one of their most significant consequences. After outlining hypotheses for the mechanisms driving such evolution, it identifies a number of "musemes" implicated in hexatonic and octatonic organization in a passage from Mahler's Symphony no. 10. Anthony Pople's (2013) Tonalities music-analysis software is used to explore the tonal organization of the passage, which is considered in relation to the musemes hypothesized to generate and underpin it.

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Chapter 1: begins with a rationale for the book, arguing for the power of evolutionary thought to illuminate the origins and practices of music. It surveys evolutionary theory, explaining how the Darwinian ‘Variation-Replication-Selection’ algorithm operates in a substrate-neutral way, covering a number of key cross-substrate commonalities that allow Darwinism in biology to be related to Darwinism in other realms, including (musical) culture. This integration of biological and cultural Darwinism allows for the exploration in later chapters of the evolution of musicality (the human urge and capacity for making music) and the evolution of music (the internal, systemic evolution of musical style and structure in human cultures).

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‘Fishing in the Right Place’: Analytical Examples from the Tonalities Project

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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music

Memetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Tonal Systems in Music

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