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Randy Fertel
Since Montaigne, the rhetoric of spontaneity —
spontaneity as a rhetorical device — has been a characteristic
ingredient in creative nonfiction. “Is it reasonable,” asks Montaigne,
"that I should set forth to the world, where fashioning and art have so
much credit and authority, some crude and simple products of nature, and
of a feeble nature at that? Is it not making a wall without stone, or
something like that, to construct books without knowledge and without
art? Musical fancies are guided by art, mine by chance" (611).
Montaigne points to the implicit dialogue with artifice that lies...
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Tonal modulation is one of the main structural and expressive aspects of music in the European musical
tradition. Experiment 1 investigated affective responses to modulations to all 11 major and minor keys
(relative to the starting tonality) in brief, specially constructed harmonic progressions, by using six
bipolar scales related to valence, potency, and synaesthesia. The results indicated the dependence of
affective response on degree of modulation in terms of key proximity, and of mode. Experiment 2
examined affective responses to the most common modulations in 19th-century piano music:...
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