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Music Theory Online 26 (3), 2020
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Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, 2019
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BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 49/2, 2018
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Theory & Practice, 2014
William Renwick’s subject-answer paradigms provide an important means of examining the r... more William Renwick’s subject-answer paradigms provide an important means of examining the role linear progressions play within fugal structures and have significant theoretical and pedagogical value. However, his paradigms raise important theoretical issues when one applies them in analysis, particularly where tonal answers are involved. The paper focuses on Renwick’s paradigms 1 and 2a, as they are the most frequently occurring paradigms in J.S. Bach’s fugues and both require tonal answers. An in-depth discussion of Paradigm 1 serves to illustrate the three main analytical problems with his paradigms: first, isolating the opening subject-answer statements de-emphasizes the answer’s prolongational function in the fugal exposition; second, the paradigms are not always consistently applied between different structural levels; and third, the tonal answer paradigms do not adequately reflect those answers’ resemblance to their subjects. Two revised paradigms are then introduced that offer more middleground specificity, stronger emphasis on the answer’s function within the fugal exposition, and more accurate representation of the foreground similarities between subjects and tonal answers. These new paradigms are intended to serve as a model, which can then in principle be applied to Renwick’s other paradigms as well.
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The Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory, edited by Rachel Lumsden and Jeffrey Swinkin. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
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Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, 2016
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Ph.D. diss., Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, 2013
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