End-Accented Sentences: Towards a Theory of Phrase-Rhythmic Progression. Ng, S. Music Theory Spectrum, jan, 2021.
Paper doi abstract bibtex For centuries, theorists have debated whether musical phrases are normatively beginning-accented or end-accented. The last two decades of the twentieth century gave beginning-accented rhythm the upper hand; yet, recent work on end-accented phrases has reinvigorated the debate. I contribute to this discussion in two ways. First, I aim to rehabilitate a central position of end-accented rhythm by drawing attention to phrase-rhythmic tendencies in classical sentence structure. My analyses show that end-accented sentential schemas are well-established compositional options in various action spaces—including Primary and Secondary Themes—in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century instrumental music. Moreover, integral roles of end-accented sentential themes are substantiated by their production—in tandem with their beginning-accented counterparts—of large-scale progressions analogous to tonal and formal ones. Awareness of these sentential themes re-energizes the century-old debate and deepens our understanding of phrase rhythm as a source of musical meaning. Second, in order to achieve the first goal, I develop a theory of phrase-rhythmic progression for categorizing phrase-rhythmic types and mapping their trajectories. This theory fills a gap in current spatial representations of rhythm and meter, which focus on metric dissonances and hierarchies without considerations of phrase–meter interaction.
@Article{ ng2021-end-accented,
author = {Ng, Samuel},
year = {2021},
title = {End-Accented Sentences: Towards a Theory of
Phrase-Rhythmic Progression},
abstract = {For centuries, theorists have debated whether musical
phrases are normatively beginning-accented or
end-accented. The last two decades of the twentieth
century gave beginning-accented rhythm the upper hand;
yet, recent work on end-accented phrases has reinvigorated
the debate. I contribute to this discussion in two ways.
First, I aim to rehabilitate a central position of
end-accented rhythm by drawing attention to
phrase-rhythmic tendencies in classical sentence
structure. My analyses show that end-accented sentential
schemas are well-established compositional options in
various action spaces—including Primary and Secondary
Themes—in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
instrumental music. Moreover, integral roles of
end-accented sentential themes are substantiated by their
production—in tandem with their beginning-accented
counterparts—of large-scale progressions analogous to
tonal and formal ones. Awareness of these sentential
themes re-energizes the century-old debate and deepens our
understanding of phrase rhythm as a source of musical
meaning. Second, in order to achieve the first goal, I
develop a theory of phrase-rhythmic progression for
categorizing phrase-rhythmic types and mapping their
trajectories. This theory fills a gap in current spatial
representations of rhythm and meter, which focus on metric
dissonances and hierarchies without considerations of
phrase–meter interaction.},
doi = {10.1093/mts/mtaa018},
issn = {0195-6167},
journal = {Music Theory Spectrum},
keywords = {beginning-accented phrases,end-accented
phrases,narrative,phrase
rhythm,representation,schema,sentence,spatial},
month = {jan},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mts/mtaa018/6131575}
}
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