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- Title
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito.
- Authors
Duinker, Ben
- Abstract
Instead of grounding FIT, these chapters risk presenting as an eleventh-hour pitch for its usefulness, something Ito's many fine analyses in the book have already done. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of hemiola (a topic Ito returns to later), summarizing the traditional binary approach to performing them: stressing the notated meter or stressing the hemiola. Chapter 6 extends the discussion of focal impulses and meter begun in Chapter 4, with Ito asserting that FIT is more concerned with meter, and less concerned with grouping. Yet time after time, the book does exactly this, not least because Ito is arguing for his preferred interpretations of repertoire, but because the performer's voice is simply absent beyond Ito's interpretation of it through recordings.[6] Without it, the theorist becomes kingmaker by default.
- Subjects
ART; MUSICAL analysis; POPULAR music; CONFIRMATION bias; VERSIFICATION; SONATA
- Publication
Music Theory Spectrum, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0195-6167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mts/mtad013