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Author : Ian Bent
Release : 1996-08-28
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 021/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism by : Ian Bent
Download or read book Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism written by Ian Bent. This book was released on 1996-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve brilliant historians of theory probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music.
Author : Leonard B. Meyer
Release : 1996
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 527/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Style and Music by : Leonard B. Meyer
Download or read book Style and Music written by Leonard B. Meyer. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He explores why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of nineteenth-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into our own time. "A monumental work. . . . Most authors concede the relation of music to its cultural milieu, but few have probed so deeply in demonstrating this interaction."—Choice "Probes the foundations of musical research precisely at the joints where theory and history fold into one another."—Kevin Korsyn, Journal of American Musicological Society "A remarkably rich and multifaceted, yet unified argument. . . . No one else could have brought off this immense project with anything like Meyer's command."—Robert P. Morgan, Music Perception "Anyone who attempts to deal with Romanticism in scholarly depth must bring to the task not only musical and historical expertise but unquenchable optimism. Because Leonard B. Meyer has those qualities in abundance, he has been able to offer fresh insight into the Romantic concept."—Donal Henahan, New York Times
Author : Richard Cohn
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 211/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Audacious Euphony by : Richard Cohn
Download or read book Audacious Euphony written by Richard Cohn. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the two repertories under a single mode of representation. Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic impulse. In Audacious Euphony, author Richard Cohn takes both of these views to task, arguing that romantic harmony operates under syntactic principles distinct from those that underlie classical tonality, but no less susceptible to systematic definition. Charting this alternative triadic syntax, Cohn reconceives what consonant triads are, and how they relate to one another. In doing so, he shows that major and minor triads have two distinct natures: one based on their acoustic properties, and the other on their ability to voice-lead smoothly to each other in the chromatic universe. Whereas their acoustic nature underlies the diatonic tonality of the classical tradition, their voice-leading properties are optimized by the pan-triadic progressions characteristic of the 19th century. Audacious Euphony develops a set of inter-related maps that organize intuitions about triadic proximity as seen through the lens of voice-leading proximity, using various geometries related to the 19th-century Tonnetz. This model leads to cogent analyses both of particular compositions and of historical trends across the long nineteenth century. Essential reading for music theorists, Audacious Euphony is also a valuable resource for music historians, performers and composers.
Author : John Neubauer
Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New Paths by : John Neubauer
Download or read book New Paths written by John Neubauer. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the seventh publication in the series "Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute."" --Book Jacket.
Author : Benedict Taylor
Release : 2021-08-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 434/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism by : Benedict Taylor
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism written by Benedict Taylor. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.
