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Waltham-Smith, Naomi R. (2017) The time it takes to listen. Music Theory Spectrum, 39 (1). pp. 18-35. doi:10.1093/mts/mtx006 ISSN 0195-6167.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtx006
Abstract
This article argues that Beethoven’s Arietta Variations inscribe the activity of listening in their own melodic and harmonic processes. The argument proceeds from two observations: (1) that tonality anticipates the listening subject in the form of a “desire” to progress from dominant to tonic; (2) that the temporal representation produced by analysis is always minimally dislocated from the time of music’s sonic unfolding. A notion of “the time it takes to listen” describes the time it takes for the ear to bring to its completion the analytical representation of time and thereby accounts for this gap. An analysis focusing on the role of the trill demonstrates how the Arietta Variations reflect this supplementary temporality in their own unfolding.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation, Melody, Harmony | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Music Theory Spectrum | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0195-6167 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 April 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 18-35 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/mts/mtx006 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 March 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 April 2019 |
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