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John Covach deposited “The Quest of the Absolute: Schoenberg, Hauer, and the Twelve-Tone Idea,” in Jon Michael Spencer, ed., Theomusicology, special issue of Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology 8/1 (Duke University Press, 1994): 158-77. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article examines the spiritual dimension of early twelve-tone theoretical writing, with a focus on the writing and music of Arnold Schoenberg and Josef Matthias Hauer.
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John Covach deposited “The Sources of Schoenberg’s ‘Aesthetic Theology,’” ¬19th-Century Music 19/3 (1996): 252-62. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article explores the sources of what Dahlhaus calls Schoenberg’s “aesthetic theology” in the philosophical, literary, and mystical writings of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.
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John Covach deposited “Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Time in Berg’s Music,” in Encryted Messages in Alban Berg’s Music, ed. Siglind Bruhn (Garland Publishing, 1998), 5-29. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article explores the influence of mysticism in early 20th-century Vienna on the palindromic designs that can found n Berg’s music.
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John Covach deposited “Schoenberg’s ‘Poetics of Music’ and the Twelve-Tone Idea,” in Schoenberg and Words, ed. R. Berman and C. Cross (Garland Publishing, 2000), 309-46. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter examines Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas on musical structure with particular emphasis on his Variations for Orchestra, op 31.
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John Covach deposited “Twelve-Tone Theory,” in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 603-627. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter traces the development of the twelve-tone idea in twentieth-century music theory.
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John Covach deposited “Schoenberg’s (Analytical) Gaze: Musical Time, The Organic Ideal, and Analytical Perspectivism,” Theory and Practice 42 (2017): 141-59. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article explores Schoenberg’s engagement with organicism, casting it as an aesthetic ideal.
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John Covach deposited “Josef Matthias Hauer,” in Music of the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde, ed. Larry Sitsky (Greenwood Publishing, 2003), 197-202. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter provides a biographical sketch of Hauer’s life and music.
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John Covach deposited “The Americanization of Arnold Schoenberg? Theory, Analysis, and Reception,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 15/2 (2018): 155-75. in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the reception of Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas in the English-language music theory community.
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John Covach deposited “Schoenberg’s ‘Poetics of Music’ and the Twelve-Tone Idea,” in Schoenberg and Words, ed. R. Berman and C. Cross (Garland Publishing, 2000), 309-46. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter examines Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas on musical structure with particular emphasis on his Variations for Orchestra, op 31.
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John Covach deposited “Twelve-Tone Theory,” in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 603-627. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter traces the development of the twelve-tone idea in twentieth-century music theory.
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John Covach deposited “Josef Matthias Hauer,” in Music of the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde, ed. Larry Sitsky (Greenwood Publishing, 2003), 197-202. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This chapter provides a biographical sketch of Hauer’s life and music.
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John Covach deposited “Schoenberg’s (Analytical) Gaze: Musical Time, The Organic Ideal, and Analytical Perspectivism,” Theory and Practice 42 (2017): 141-59. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article explores Schoenberg’s engagement with organicism, casting it as an aesthetic ideal.
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John Covach deposited “The Americanization of Arnold Schoenberg? Theory, Analysis, and Reception,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 15/2 (2018): 155-75. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
This article traces the reception of Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas in the English-language music theory community.
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John Covach deposited “George Harrison, Songwriter,” in M. Osteen, ed., Part of Everything: The Beatles’ White Album at Fifty (University of Michigan Press, 2019), 177-96. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter chronicles George Harrison’s songwriting during the Beatles years.
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John Covach deposited “Afterword,” in M. Osteen, ed., Part of Everything: The Beatles’ White Album at Fifty (University of Michigan Press, 2019), 263-69. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis afterword discusses the Beatles White Album and the essays contained in this volume.
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John Covach deposited “Analyzing Texture in Rock Music: Stratification, Coordination, Position, and Perspective,” in Pop weiter denken: Neue Anstöße aus Jazz Studies, Philosophie, Musiktheorie und Geschichte, Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung 44, ed. Ralf von Appen and André Doehring (Transcript Verlag, 2018), 53-72. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter posits models for musical texture and positional listening and analysis.
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John Covach deposited “Yes, the Psychedelic-Symphonic Cover, and ‘Every Little Thing’,” in C. Scotto, K. Smith, and J. Brackett, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge, 2018), 277-90. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter explores the history of the “cover,” distinguishing between covers and versions and focusing on the psychedelic symphonic cover version in the music of Vanilla Fudge and Yes.
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John Covach deposited “High Brow, Low Brow, Knot Now, Know How,” in C. Rodriguez, ed., Coming of Age: Teaching and Learning Music in Academia (Maize Books, 2017), 313-33. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter explores the role of popular music in music curricula, considering it in terms of the flattening of the lowbrow/highbrow distinction in American culture and academic culture.
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John Covach deposited “The Way We Were: Rethinking the Popular in a Flat World,” Analitica/Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, 2016, vol. 1/2, 59-72. in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article considers the historical rise of the high/low brow distinction in American culture since the late 19th century, and posits that the emergence of digital technology and the internet have created something more like a “flat world” in which the low/high distinction is transformed.
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John Covach deposited “Rock Me, Maestro,” Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2, 2015) in the group
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis essay considers the role of popular music in college music curricula.
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