Clean as a Whistle
Timbral Trajectories and the Modern Musical Sublime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4390768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Leydon (Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Music Theory Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-3040 • E-ISSN: 1067-3040 |
| Publisher | Society for Music Theory (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.30535/mto.18.2.4 |
| OpenAlex | W1511836313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay attempts to develop an interpretative framework for effects of timbre in selected twentieth-century instrumental music. My approach draws on ethnomusicologist Cornelia Fales's concept of "perceptualization" in order to establish expressive associations of transparency and turbidity with sinusoidal purity and spectral noise, respectively. I explore how these sonic tokens of purity and impurity are in turn mapped onto concepts of spirituality and corporeality in music of Varèse, Stockhausen, Messiaen, Gubaidulina, and especially George Crumb, whose workBlack Angelsis singled out for a detailed discussion of its timbral processes and their interpretive possibilities
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Ethnomusicology · Instrumental music · Literature · Musical · Spirituality · Timbre · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis
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Ecology without Nature
George Crumb's Channels of Mythification
The Harmonic Function of the Altered Octave in Early Atonal Music of Schoenberg and Webern
The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films
Between Romanticism and Modernism and Postmodernism
Timbre as Differentiation in Indie Music
Music and Spirituality
Quotation and Framing
The Paradox of Timbre
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |