Register and the Large-Scale Connection

Oster, Ernst

doi:10.2307/842870

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“…Ernst Oster (1961) showed the significant role that the register plays in creating connections in the composition. He presented situations in which the register contributes in an essential way to the establishment of structural, thematic-motivic, or contrapuntal relationships, with examples of works by Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn.…”

Section: Instrumental Pitch Registersmentioning

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“…Regarding the pitch registers, authors such as Nancy November (2007), William Drabkin (2000), and Ernst Oster (1961) agree with the importance of studying instrumental pitch registers of musical works. November (2007) demonstrated how the register plays a prominent role in Joseph Haydn's four string quartets, James MacKay (2013) showed the Haydn's ability to use extreme registers to assist formal articulation in works for classic five-octaves keyboards, and Charles Rosen (2001, p. 210) highlighted the extreme registers usage to create climax in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.…”

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quantitative study of pitch registers in string quartets opus 17, by Joseph Haydn

Sampaio¹,

Sanches²,

Travassos³

et al. 2021

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In this paper, we present an exploratory study of the pitch registers on the string quartets Opus 17, by Joseph Haydn, according to a quantitative approach. This subject is relevant because the pitch registers studies have revealed noteworthy issues in the Musical Analysis area, the statistical techniques help to detect musical subtleties with a small potential for bias, and because on this corpus, Haydn has established standards for the string quartet genre. The pitch registers study allowed us to identify relevant musical aspects in the repertoire, understand the role of extreme registers in the form segmentation, and observe the prominence of the development and second theme sections, and the feasibility of the quantitative methods. We present a brief theoretical foundation, the methodological framework, the results of the investigation on the quartets' instrument pitches, a discussion about these results, and the conclusions. Keywords: Pitch register, Quantitative analysis, Digital Musicology, String quartet, Joseph Haydn

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Section: Instrumental Pitch Registersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%