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DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:
  Prof. William Rothstein\, Guest Speaker\, Professor of Music Theory - CUN
 Y Graduate Center\n\nTitle: Melody vs. Harmony\n\nAbstract: The word “harm
 ony” means “agreement” broadly conceived\; in musical discourse\, “harmony
 ” refers to chords and their relations. During the centuries in which West
 ern harmony was founded on the trias harmonica\, melody and harmony usuall
 y cooperated. The Rule of the Octave\, for instance\, assigns stable chord
 s to stable melodic degrees\, mobile chords to mobile degrees.\n\nSometime
 s melody and harmony work independently. Theorists from the seventeenth ce
 ntury to the present have written of such situations. Most interesting are
  the views of Fétis\, Schenker\, and Hindemith\, who regarded melody as an
  independent variable\, one that should be analyzed both separately and to
 gether with its accompaniment. Analyzing melody independently is virtually
  required when dealing with compositions built on a cantus firmus.\n\nAfte
 r a tour of historical theorists\, I will cite a few passages in which mel
 odic-harmonic conflicts operate locally. Then I will focus on works in whi
 ch such conflicts occur on larger scales: “Laudate pueri” from Monteverdi’
 s Vespers (based in part on an analysis by Evan Campbell)\; the opening ch
 orus from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (based in part on an analysis by Mark
  Anson-Cartwright)\; and Verdi’s La forza del destino.\n\nBio: William Rot
 hstein is recently retired from Queens College and The Graduate Center of 
 The City University of New York\, where he taught for 25 years. He has als
 o taught at Amherst College\, Oberlin College\, and the University of Mich
 igan. He is author of Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music (1989) and The Musical 
 Language of Italian Opera\, 1813–1859 (2023). He has published extensively
  on the music of Beethoven and Chopin\, the theory and analysis of rhythm\
 , and the theories of Schenker.\n
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LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Prof. William Rothstein
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