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  • Hello John, Hands down the best theological perspective on specific configurations of musical sound that I have encountered is Beethoven and Freedom by Daniel K. L. Chua. It is, moreover, the best piece of writing on music, period, that I have ever …
  • There is some indigenous theory on Georgian music, especially Georgian chant, which has a canonical aspect. I can provide a few pointers upon request.
  • Tonality is an inclusion relation between two or more perceptual frames--namely, at least the frame of a pitch or pitch-class collection and the frame of one or more "tonic" pitches or pitch classes. It is analogous to meter, which is an inclusion r…
  • Sorry for the delay, Tim. If I understand you correctly, you are thinking of lead-ins as including bridges (short connective passages). I want to suggest that lead-ins and bridges are totally different. I raise this issue in “Form – Function – Conte…
  • I would like to suggest my article "Schoenberg–Schenker–Bach: A Harmonic, Contrapuntal, Formal Braid," ZGMTH 16/1 (2019): 67–97, https://www.gmth.de/zeitschrift/artikel/1005.aspx. It uses Schoenbergian and Schenkerian approaches, as well as Hattenia…
  • Some good examples are Schoenberg, op. 14, no. 1, mm. 1–3; op. 15, no. 14, m. 1; and op. 21, no. 17, m. 1 with the pickup (the canonic entries in the viola and clarinet prepare the vocal entry). Another is op. 21, no. 8, mm. 1–2, although some might…