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Is There a Way to Invoke the Music Itself Without Embarrassing Ourselves?

Walls, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

The interpretation of analytical claims about music presents a dilemma between positivism and fictionalism: is it that the structures imputed by the analysis are part of the reality of "the music itself" or are the structures ...
Kernel

Walls, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

Kernel is a fifteen-minute work for wind ensemble. Its unifying strands of rhythm, melody, and harmony are spun out of simple four-note tone clusters which undergo changes in contour, intervallic inversion, register, ...