Category: Resource

• May 13, 2021

  Video Podcast on the Sonata Type Tree

  Watch my video podcast below to find out how to use the Sonata Type Tree for Sonata Theory pedagogy and some of the ways it can be developed for analysis. This video was created for the Society for Music Analysis’s ‘Teaching Music Theory in the Digital Age’ Study Day, 26 Mar 2021. Find out more…
• December 3, 2020

  The Sonata-Type Tree

  The prototype of the Sonata-Type Tree can be found on this page.
• March 25, 2020

  Introduction to the Sonata Type Tree

  The Sonata Type Tree is an interactive tree diagram that visually represents James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s rotationally-defined Sonata Types 1, 2, 3 and 4, as theorised in Elements of Sonata Theory
• February 24, 2020

  Create Schenkerian Scale Degrees without Music Font

  In Schenkerian theory, the descending steps of the Fundamental harmonic structure (the Urlinie) as well as the steps of linear progressions are referred to by their degree of distance from the tonic. These are scale degrees (Stufe). For instance, the note G in the key of C major is scale degree 5 and the note…