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The Improvisation and Preservation of Barbershop Harmony: Parsimonious Voice Leading and the Harmonic Highway
The Improvisation and Preservation of Barbershop Harmony: Parsimonious Voice Leading and the Harmonic Highway
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211153107
- ISBN
- 9798384089032
- DDC
- 780
- 서명/저자
- The Improvisation and Preservation of Barbershop Harmony: Parsimonious Voice Leading and the Harmonic Highway
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Cincinnati, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 240 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation explores the tension between improvisation and preservation in the development of the barbershop style. Barbershop music is an American genre of a cappella vocal music originating in improvisational singing by African Americans in the late 19th century. Barbershop singing was widespread in the first two decades of the 20th century, but later declined in popularity until a group of Midwesterners founded the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) in 1938. This Society was built on nostalgia and a desire to preserve ?the old songs? and the practice of barbershop quartet singing. Preservation was primarily accomplished through contest rules, which outlined the mandatory elements of the barbershop style. In this dissertation, I emphasize the importance of improvisation in the formation of barbershop music. I explore the role Society preservation efforts played in codifying certain elements of contemporary practice and provide detailed explication and analysis of SPEBSQSA music theoretical sources. I identify weaknesses in existing barbershop theory for explaining certain chromatic progressions that are idiomatic to the style and suggest that these progressions are evidence of the Black improvised origin of the style. By applying modern neo-Riemannian theory methodologies, I demonstrate that parsimonious voice leading is a key organizing principle of barbershop music that can be visualized through graphical representations of seventh chord harmonic spaces. These findings allow me to present a comprehensive theory of barbershop harmonic practice, which I employ in a thorough study of harmony and voice leading in barbershop endings, called tags.
- 일반주제명
- Music
- 일반주제명
- Musical composition
- 일반주제명
- Music theory
- 일반주제명
- Musical performances
- 키워드
- American music
- 키워드
- Improvisation
- 기타저자
- University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music: Theory
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation explores the tension between improvisation and preservation in the development of the barbershop style. Barbershop music is an American genre of a cappella vocal music originating in improvisational singing by African Americans in the late 19th century. Barbershop singing was widespread in the first two decades of the 20th century, but later declined in popularity until a group of Midwesterners founded the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) in 1938. This Society was built on nostalgia and a desire to preserve ?the old songs? and the practice of barbershop quartet singing. Preservation was primarily accomplished through contest rules, which outlined the mandatory elements of the barbershop style. In this dissertation, I emphasize the importance of improvisation in the formation of barbershop music. I explore the role Society preservation efforts played in codifying certain elements of contemporary practice and provide detailed explication and analysis of SPEBSQSA music theoretical sources. I identify weaknesses in existing barbershop theory for explaining certain chromatic progressions that are idiomatic to the style and suggest that these progressions are evidence of the Black improvised origin of the style. By applying modern neo-Riemannian theory methodologies, I demonstrate that parsimonious voice leading is a key organizing principle of barbershop music that can be visualized through graphical representations of seventh chord harmonic spaces. These findings allow me to present a comprehensive theory of barbershop harmonic practice, which I employ in a thorough study of harmony and voice leading in barbershop endings, called tags.
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