The Use of "Computer-Assisted Contrapuntal, Intervallic, and Motion Analysis" as a Tool to Help Determine the Authorship of Organ Works in the Neumeister Collection Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Inagi, Shinji Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 09/10/2021 11:59:03 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621077 THE USE OF “COMPUTER-ASSISTED CONTRAPUNTAL, INTERVALLIC, AND MOTION ANALYSIS” AS A TOOL TO HELP DETERMINE THE AUTHORSHIP OF ORGAN WORKS IN THE NEUMEISTER COLLECTION by Shinji Inagi ____________________________ Copyright ©Shinji Inagi 2016 A Document Submitted to the Faculty of the FRED FOX SCHOOL OF MUSIC In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2016 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Document Committee, we certify that we have read the document prepared by Shinji Inagi, titled “The Use of ‘Computer-Assisted Contrapuntal, Intervallic and Motion Analysis’ as a Tool to Help Determine the Authorship of Organ Works in The Neumeister Collection” and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the document requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Pamela Decker Date: 07/26/2016 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Rex Woods Date: 07/26/2016 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. John Brobeck Date: 07/26/2016 Final approval and acceptance of this document is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the document to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this document prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the document requirement. ___________________________________________________________________ Document Director: Pamela Decker Date: 07/26/2016 3 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This document has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this document are allowable without special permission, provided that an accurate acknowledgement of the source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his or her judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: Shinji Inagi 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincerest appreciation to the many individuals whose assistance made the completion of this document and degree possible. I am grateful for the continuous support, patience, and encouragement of my wife Rika Inagi as well as my children Sakura and Eilee along this journey. Also, to my parents for their unchanging support, trust, and love for so many years. I would like to thank Dr. Pamela Decker as my advisor and also as my professor, who trusted and encouraged me along the way. I would like to express my gratitude for my committee members, Dr. Rex Woods and Dr. John Brobeck, for their valuable advice and support. I also would like to thank Dr. Quinton Hurst, who has given advice and engineering assistance that became the core of this study. Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to Lyneen Elmore, whose invaluable assistance made the final stage of my doctoral work possible. 5 DEDICATION Dedicated to my parents, Teruo and Hideo Inagi, to my wife and children, Rika, Sakura, and Eilee Inagi, and to my mentor, Douglas Bush 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES................................................................................................................7 LIST OF FIGURES................................................................................................................8 LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES......................................................................................10 ABSTRACT.........................................................................................................................11 I. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................12 A. Intent and Scope of Study.................................................................................12 II. THE NEUMEISTER COLLECTION.............................................................................14 A. Historical Background of The Neumeister Collection.......................................14 B. Attribution Problems..........................................................................................17 III. STATISTICALLY FORMULATED ANALYSIS.......................................................30 A. Intervallic, Contrapuntal, and Motion Analysis.................................................30 B. Methodology......................................................................................................32 C. Computer-Assisted Charts and Graphs..............................................................40 D. Interpretation and Application............................................................................47 IV. CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................69 APPENDIX A: TABULATED CHARTS AND GRAPHS.................................................72 APPENDIX B. MATLAB TABULATOR CODE.............................................................198 REFERENCES...................................................................................................................216 7 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Chorales of The Neumeister Collection and their concordant sources......................18 Table 2. Wolff’s tentative attribution of the anonymous works.............................................25 Table 3. Chorales with conflicting modern attributions.............................................................28 Table 4. Statistical analysis results of Wir glauben all an einen Gott.....................................36 Table 5. Motion analysis of Ach Gott und Herr...........................................................................39 Table 6. Manual and MATLAB analysis results of Wir glauben all an einen Gott......................43 Table 7. MATLAB motion analysis of Ach Gott und Herr..........................................................45 Table 8. Contrapuntal analysis of J.M. Bach’s Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot.....................55 Table 9. Contrapuntal traits of selected works of J.M. Bach in The Neumeister Collection......57 Table 10. Contrapuntal traits of selected works of J.S. Bach in The Neumeister Collection.......58 Table 11. Contrapuntal traits of selected works of J.C. Bach in The Neumeister Collection......59 Table 12. Contrapuntal traits of selected works of Pachelbel.....................................................60 Table 13. Contrapuntal traits of Zachow’s works in The Neumeister Collection........................61 Table 14. Contrapuntal traits of all the composers in The Neumeister Collection.......................62 Table 15. Contrapuntal traits of the anonymous works in The Neumeister Collection................63 Table 16. Probable composers of anonymous works................................................................69 8 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Analysis of melodic intervals in Wir glauben all an einen Gott, mm. 1-3....................33 Figure 2. Complete analysis of Example 2 on a graph paper........................................................35 Figure 3. Tabulated results of melodic and contrapuntal interval analysis....................................37 Figure 4. XML metadata and its output on Finale.......................................................................41 Figure 5. Radar graphs of interval counts for Wir glauben formulated by both methods.............45 Figure 6. Motion analysis radar graph of Ach Gott und Herr......................................................46 Figure 7. Motion analysis bar graph of Ach Gott und Herr.........................................................46 Figure 8. Melodic analysis of the bass part in selected works by J.M. Bach..........................47 Figure 9. Melodic analysis of the bass part in selected works by J.S. Bach......................48 Figure 10. Melodic analysis of the bass part in selected works by J. Pachelbel............................48 Figure 11. Melodic analysis of the bass part from two anonymous works....................................49 Figure 12. Soprano-Tenor graphs of selected works by Johann Michael Bach...........................50 Figure 13. Soprano-Tenor graphs of selected works by Johann Sebastian Bach.........................50 Figure 14. Soprano-Tenor graphs of selected works by Johann Pachelbel..................................51 Figure 15. Soprano-Tenor graph of anonymous works in the The Neumeister Collection...........52