Musical Commonplace Books, Writing Theory, and "Silent Listening": The Polyphonic Examples of the Dodecachordon

Judd, Cristle Collins

doi:10.1093/mq/82.3-4.482

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“…These are short vertical combinations of melodic segments, and are repeated subject to various transformations such as inversion, transposition, or ornamentation. These modules have been investigated recently in several important research projects, for example Owens (1997), Schubert (1994), Judd (1992Judd ( , 1998, and Lessoil-Daelman (2002). Most recently published, and most relevant to this study, is work undertaken at McGill University by Peter Schubert (2007).…”

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A System for Identifying Common Melodic Phrases in the Masses of Palestrina

Knopke

Jürgensen

2009

Journal of New Music Research

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An important direction in Renaissance music research is the relationship of repetition to structure and compositional practice. This calls for very time-consuming analysis, and is generally unfeasible when applied to large collections of compositions. However, such largescale analyses are necessary to allow us to identify trends across entire repertories. We describe a system based on the use of suffix arrays, which allows us to find instances of melodic repetition in an enormous body of music, within a reasonable amount of processing time. This system identifies all transpositions, inversions, retrogrades, and retrograde inversions of unknown melodic segments. It has been applied to the entire collection of masses by Palestrina, a corpus of over seven hundred mass sections and approximately one million notes.

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confidence: 99%