Author: Anthony Jay Kosar
Publisher:
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Category : Tonality
Languages : en
Pages : 1130

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Author: Anthony Jay Kosar (musicologue)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 565

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Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022662708X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity for Europeans during this time as they learned more about “other” musics and alternative tonal systems. Tonality became a central vortex in which French musicians thought—and argued—about a variety of musical repertoires, be they contemporary European musics of the stage, concert hall, or church, folk songs from the provinces, microtonal scale systems of Arabic and Indian music, or the medieval and Renaissance music whose notational traces were just beginning to be deciphered by scholars. Fétis’s influential writings offer insight into how tonality ingrained itself within nineteenth-century music discourse, and why it has continued to resonate with uncanny prescience throughout the musical upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author: Anthony Jay Kosar
Publisher:
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Category : Harmony
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.

Author: Karen Tax
Publisher:
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Category : Fétis, François-Joseph
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Vladimir Barsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134366051
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Musical practices in the 20th century pose new and complex problems in the study of the fundamental principles of pitch organization. The analysis of basic harmonic categories, one of which is chromaticism, acquires particular importance as a means of restoring time, which has gone out of joint and identifying the logical principles in the historical process of musical development. Vladimir Barsky, in his thoroughly researched and clearly written guide, traces the progress of the concept of chromaticism throughout Western musical history, and recreates an integrated logical and historical perspective in order to make a specific study of this key subject. He identifies the dynamics of the changing historical theories of chromaticism and relates these to musical practices, applying them to the analysis of current pitch systems. This book will be an invaluable tool for readers whose aim is to come nearer to comprehending the idioms of 20th century music.

Author: Jean Marie Littlejohn
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784--1871) made two significant contributions to music-theoretical thought: he was responsible for giving the concept of tonality the centrality that it continues to enjoy, and his theory of harmony was the first to suggest that the music system of modern Europe was just one in a world where music systems change over time and where different music systems exist in different places. The serious study of almost any topic in nineteenth-century European music will bring the researcher to Fetis. His influence on his contemporaries was vast, and his influence on the development of modern ideas about musical repertoire, theory, history, education, and criticism can hardly be overstated. Considering his importance, it is regrettable that music theorists and musicologists who brush up against Fetis often exhibit lopsided views of his work, the result of a literature that lacks the synthesis of analytical depth and breadth necessary to form a complete picture of his musical legacy.

Author: Edward Gollin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199717478
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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In recent years Hugo Riemann's ideas have thoroughly captured the music-theoretical imagination, both in the United States and abroad. Neo-Riemannian theory has proven particularly adept at explaining features of chromatic music where other theoretical approaches have failed, and in so doing has established itself as the leading theoretical approach of our time. The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories brings together an international group of leading proponents of Riemannian and neo-Riemannian theory for a thoroughgoing exploration of the music-analytical, systematic, and historical aspects of this important new field. The volume elucidates key aspects of the field, draws connections between Riemann's original ideas and current thought, and suggests new applications and avenues for further study. A number of essays suggest connections to other fields of inquiry, such as cognitive and mathematical music theory, as well as applications in the field of metric or melodic analysis. The selection of essays is complemented by several of Hugo Riemann's key original texts, many of which appear in English translation for the first time, and is rounded off by a glossary of key concepts for easy reference.

Author: David Kopp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chromaticism (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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