Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0061020

Zusammenfassung

It is one of the chief concerns of musicological scholarship to arrive at a better understanding of the principles and mechanisms underlying structure building in different musical styles. Voice-leading schemata can be classified as such a mechanism. They may be regarded as central components of Western tonal music in the classical style and beyond. Since the last decade, they have become a major topic, particularly for historically informed music theory and analysis. Based on the identification of patterns of schema usage, scholars can characterize musical styles and provide an explanatory fr...