Tonal Structures In Early Music

Author : Cristle Collins Judd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135704694
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tonal Structures in Early Music written by Cristle Collins Judd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives.

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521760034
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Music History: Volume 27 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of music from the early Middle Ages to end of the seventeenth century.

Author : Jim Samson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139824996
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chopin written by Jim Samson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.

Author : Jim Samson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Transition written by Jim Samson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades from 1900 to 1920 saw important changes in the very language of music. Traditional tonal organization gave way to new forms of musical expression and many of the foundations of modern music were laid. Samson first explores tonal expansion in the music of such nineteenth-centurycomposers as Liszt and Wagner and its reinterpretation in the music of Debussy, Busoni, Bartok, and Stravinsky. He then traces the atonal revolution, revealing the various paths taken by Schoenberg and his followers and describing their very different stylistic development.

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval Music written by Mark Everist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.

Author : Gerald Warfield
Publisher : Schirmer Books
ISBN 13 : 9780028731902
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layer Analysis written by Gerald Warfield and published by Schirmer Books. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Megan Kaes Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190851910
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing Homophony written by Megan Kaes Long and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction with elements like rhythm, meter, phrase structure, and form. Hearing Homophony investigates the elusive early history of tonality by examining a constellation of late-Renaissance popular songs which flourished throughout Western Europe at the turn of the seventeenth century. Megan Kaes Long argues that it is in these songs, rather than in more ambitious secular and sacred works, that the foundations of eighteenth century style are found. Arguing that tonality emerges from features of modal counterpoint - in particular, the rhythmic, phrase structural, and formal processes that govern it - and drawing on the arguments of theorists such as Dahlhaus, Powers, and Barnett, she asserts that modality and tonality are different in kind and not mutually exclusive. Using several hundred homophonic partsongs from Italy, Germany, England, and France, Long addresses a historical question of critical importance to music theory, musicology, and music performance. Hearing Homophony presents not only a new model of tonality's origins, but also a more comprehensive understanding of what tonality is, providing novel insight into the challenging world of seventeenth-century music.

Author : Thomas Christensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316025489
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory written by Thomas Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Bella Brover-Lubovsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028035
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi written by Bella Brover-Lubovsky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between traditional modal thinking and what would later be considered common-practice major-minor tonality, directly reflects the historical circumstances of the shifting attitude toward the conceptualization of tonal space so crucial to Western art music. Vivaldi is examined in a completely new context, allowing both his prosaic and idiosyncratic sides to emerge clearly. This book contributes to a better understanding of Vivaldi's individual style, while illuminating wider processes of stylistic development and the diffusion of artistic ideas in the 18th century.

Author : Felix Salzer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486222756
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Hearing written by Felix Salzer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a pupil of Heinrich Schenker, this outstanding work develops and extends Schenker's approach. More than 500 examples of music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century complement the detailed discussions and analyses.