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MPCL Bibliographies: Musical Form
Compiled at the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory (MPCL) — McGill University.
Updated March 28, 2022.
Bañuelos, D. (2005). Beyond the Spectrum of Music: An Exploration Through Spectral Analysis of Sound Color in the Alban Berg Violin Concerto. University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Bigand, E., Parncutt, R., & Lerdahl, F. (1996). Perception of musical tension in short chord sequences: The influence of harmonic function, sensory dissonance, horizontal motion, and musical training. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(1), 124–141. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205482
Cannon, S. C. (2015). Arrival or relaunch? Dynamics, orchestration, and the function of recapitulation in the nineteenth-century symphony. Society for Music Theory Meeting 2015, St. Louis, MO.
Cannon, S. C. (2016). Altered dynamics and instrumentation at the onset of recapitulation in the nineteenth-century symphony. Analitica-Rivista Online Di Studi Musicali, 8(1). http://www.gatm.it/analiticaojs/index.php/analitica/article/view/141/124
Dolan, E. I. (2013). The orchestral revolution: Haydn and the technologies of timbre. Cambridge University Press.
Dolan, E. I. (2013). The Orchestral Revolution: Orchestral Graphs. http://www.orchestralrevolution.com/orchestral-graphs.php
Farbood, M. M. (2012). A parametric, temporal model of musical tension. Music Perception, 29(4), 387–428. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2012.29.4.387
Farbood, M. M., & Price, K. C. (2017). The contribution of timbre attributes to musical tension. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(1), 419–427. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4973568
Giacco, G. (2007). Interactions entre timbre et espace formel dans la musique contemporaine. Cahiers de La Société Québécoise de Recherche En Musique, 9(1–2), 151–169.
Gioffredo, M. (2017). Timbre and Variations: Exploring Sound in Vivier’s Zipangu (1980). 9th European Music Analysis Conference (EUROMAC9).
Goodchild, M. (2016). Orchestral gestures: Music-theoretical perspectives and emotional responses [Thesis]. McGill University.
Goodchild, M., & McAdams, S. (2018). Perceptual processes in orchestration. In E. Dolan & A. Rehding (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of timbre. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.013.10
Goodchild, M., Wild, J., & McAdams, S. (2017). Exploring emotional responses to orchestral gestures. Musicae Scientiae, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864917704033
Howland, P. (2015). Formal Structures in Post-Tonal Music. Music Theory Spectrum, 37(1), 71–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtv011
Jenkins, J. D. (2005). A study on one note: Timbre as the generator of form in the music of elliott carter. Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM05), Montreal.
Kluxen, C. (1997). Facteurs contribuant à la perception de la tension musicale dans la musique tonale et non-tonale [Mémoire de DEA]. Université Paris IV.
Lehne, M., & Koelsch, S. (2015). Toward a general psychological model of tension and suspense. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(79). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00079
Lerdahl, F. (1987). Timbral hierarchies. Contemporary Music Review, 2(1), 135–160.
Lilly, S. (2005). Form as an Outgrowth of Timbre and Rhythm: Wesley Fuller’s “Sherds of Five.” Perspectives of New Music, 43(1), 142–170.
Paraskeva, S., & McAdams, S. (1997). Influence of timbre, presence/absence of tonal hierarchy and musical training on the perception of musical tension and relaxation schemas. In T. Rikakis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference (p. [CD-ROM]). Aristotle University.
Pressnitzer, D., McAdams, S., & Fineberg, J. (2000). Perception of musical tension for nontonal orchestral timbres and its relation to psychoacoustic roughness. Perception and Psychophysics, 62(1), 66–80. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212061
Sloboda, J. A. (1991). Music structure and emotional response: Some empirical findings. Psychology of Music, 19, 110–120.
Wolf, E. K. (1966). The recapitulations in Haydn’s London symphonies. Musical Quarterly, 52(1), 71–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/LII.1.71