Basics of Narrative Analysis

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This video summarizes and augments Byron Almén's article, "Narrative Archetypes." I will explain the concept of order vs. transgression and go through the four main archetypes, and then describe how these literary ideas can be appleid to music even without words. The slides with notes are attached for download.

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