CONTEMPLATING A BRAHMS INTERMEZZO: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR THE EXPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF 'PRESCRIPTIVE MUSICAL STRUCTURES'. (AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL COMPOSITION), 'THREE ROSSETTI SONGS FOR SOPRANO AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA' IS NOT A PART OF THE FILM COPY.

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In this essay, the author presents and explains his method for analyzing tonal music, entitled A Comprehensive Analytical Method (henceforth referred to as {CAM}). {CAM}, unlike existing methods for musical analysis, does not confine its scope of investigation to a single musical event; rather, it places emphasis on all events in a work of music.;The single musical composition to which the author refers, during.;the explication of {CAM}, is Johannes Brahms's Intermezzo Op. 76,;No. 7. All of the musical events in the Structural Prescript for this.;In addition to explaining {CAM}, the author develops the thesis that tonal compositions are generated from "prescriptive" musical gestures, which contain compositionally suggestive source materials, and which the author terms "Structural Prescripts.".;work are examined thoroughly. From these events, the author has.;selected harmonic vocabulary and syntax as the subjects for.;extensive analysis in the final step of {CAM}.;*This essay and the composition, Three Rossetti Songs for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, together constitute the dissertation but are otherwise unrelated. {Only the essay portion has been filmed. The author's original composition is available for consultation at Princeton University Library}. UMI.