TOGE | MTO — Example 5

TOGE
Written By Stephen McAdams

Example 5. Timbral augmentation (sustained, transforming): Wagner, Parsifal, Overture, mm. 20–25
Audio example 2a presents the violin sections alone and 2b provides the full context [simulation from OrchPlayMusic Library]

 
 

Full Score and Recording

Scores and Recordings
Wagner | Parsifal
Wagner | Parsifal

All Examples from the TOGE Article

Supplemental Materials
TOGE | MTO — Example 1
TOGE | MTO — Example 1

Auditory grouping gives rise to events from which perceptual properties are extracted, which then acquire musical functions within a given sonic context

TOGE | MTO — Example 2
TOGE | MTO — Example 2

Auditory grouping processes and the resulting perceptual qualities and corresponding orchestral effects. [Adapted from Goodchild and McAdams 2021, Fig. 1]

TOGE | MTO — Example 3
TOGE | MTO — Example 3

Taxonomy of concurrent auditory grouping phenomena

TOGE | MTO — Example 4
TOGE | MTO — Example 4

Timbral augmentation (sustained, stable): Debussy, La Mer, i, mm. 122–31

TOGE | MTO — Example 12
TOGE | MTO — Example 12

Taxonomy of sequential auditory grouping phenomena

TOGE | MTO — Example 13
TOGE | MTO — Example 13

Stream integration (stable). Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, vi (“Samuel Goldberg and Schmuÿl”), mm. 1–8, Score in C

TOGE | MTO — Example 14
TOGE | MTO — Example 14

Stream integration (transforming): Reynolds, The Angel of Death, S section, mm. 364–373; [From Touizrar and McAdams 2019]

TOGE | MTO — Example 15
TOGE | MTO — Example 15

Surface texture (stable): Smetana, Die Moldau, mm. 185–194

TOGE | MTO — Example 16
TOGE | MTO — Example 16

Surface texture (transforming): Smetana, The Bartered Bride, Overture, mm. 89–99

TOGE | MTO — Example 17
TOGE | MTO — Example 17

Stream segregation (stable) of co-equal single-instrument lines: Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending, mm. 88–94

TOGE | MTO — Example 18
TOGE | MTO — Example 18

Example 18. Stream segregation (stable) of blended streams: Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia, mm. 210–218

TOGE | MTO — Example 19
TOGE | MTO — Example 19

Stream segregation (transforming) of blended streams: Stravinsky, Quatre Etudes, iv (Madrid), mm. 93–94

TOGE | MTO — Example 20
TOGE | MTO — Example 20

Stratification (stable) with three layers: Mahler, Symphony no. 1, ii, mm. 26–31

TOGE | MTO — Example 21
TOGE | MTO — Example 21

Stratification (transforming) in three layers: Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia, mm. 27–42]

TOGE | MTO — Example 22
TOGE | MTO — Example 22

Taxonomy of segmental auditory grouping phenomena

TOGE | MTO — Example 23
TOGE | MTO — Example 23

Timbral shifts: Schubert, Symphony no. 9 in C major, i, mm. 594–602]

Scores and Recordings for all the TOGE examples

Stephen McAdams
Previous

TOGE | MTO — Example 4
Next

TOGE | MTO — Example 6