Description |
1 online resource (831 p.) |
Series |
Oxford Studies in Music Theory Series |
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Oxford Studies in Music Theory Series
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Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Implicit Musical Knowledge -- 1. Gesualdo's trick -- 2. The quadruple hierarchy -- 3. Philosophy -- 4. Statistics -- 5. Schema -- 6. Outline -- Prelude: Transposition Along a Collection -- 2. Rock Logic -- 1. A melodic principle -- 2. A harmonic principle -- 3. A first loop family -- 4. Two more families -- 5. Shepard-tone passacaglias -- 6. Minor triads and other trichords -- 7. A fourth family -- 8. Other modalities -- 9. Function and retrofunction -- 10. Continuity or reinvention? |
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Prelude: The Tinctoris Transform -- 3. Line and Configuration -- 1. The imperfect system -- 2. Voice exchanges -- 3. Other intervals -- 4. The circle of diatonic triads -- 5. Voice exchanges and multiple chord types -- 6. Four-voice triadic counterpoint -- 7. Thinking within the chord -- 8. Seventh chords -- 9. Harmony and counterpoint -- Prelude: Sequence and Function -- 4. Repetition -- 1. Repetition reimagined -- 2. Repeating contrapuntal patterns -- 3. The geometry of two-voice sequences -- 4. Three voices and the circle of triads -- 5. Three voices arranged 2 + 1 -- 6. Four voices |
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7. Contrary-motion sequences -- 8. Melodic sequences and near sequences -- 9. Near sequences -- 10. Sequences as reductional targets -- Prelude: Three Varieties of Analytical Reduction -- 5. Nonharmonic Tones -- 1. The first practice and the SNAP system -- 2. Schoenberg's critique -- 3. Monteverdi's "Ohimè" -- 4. The standardized second practice -- 5. A loophole -- 6. After nonharmonicity -- Prelude: Functional and Scale-Degree Analysis -- 6. The Origins of Functional Harmony -- 1. The logical structure of protofunctionality -- 2. Similarities and differences -- 3. Origin and meaning |
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4. Harmony and polyphony -- 5. The Pope Marcellus Kyrie -- 6. A broader perspective -- 7. "I cannot follow" -- Prelude: Could the Martians Understand Our Music? -- 7. Functional Progressions -- 1. A theory of harmonic cycles -- 2. A more principled view -- 3. Rameau and Bach -- 4. Functional melody, functional harmony -- 5. Fauxbourdon and linear idioms -- 6. Sequences -- 7. Bach the dualist -- Prelude: Chromatic or Diatonic? -- 8. Modulation -- 1. Two models of key distance -- 2. Enharmonicism and loops in scale space -- 3. Minor keys -- 4. Modulatory schemas -- 5. Up and down the ladder |
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6. Modal homogenization and scalar voice leading -- 7. Generalized set theory -- Prelude: Hearing and Hearing-As -- 9. Heterogeneous Hierarchy -- 1. Strategy and reduction -- 2. Two models of the phrase -- 3. Chopin and the Prime Directive -- 4. An expanded vocabulary of reductional targets -- 5. Simple harmonic hierarchy -- 6. The four-part phrase -- 7. Grouping, melody, harmony -- 8. Beyond the phrase: hierarchy at the level of the piece -- Prelude: Why Beethoven? -- 10. Beethoven Theorist -- 1. Meet the Ludwig -- 2. From schema to flow -- 3. The Tempest -- 4. The Fifth Symphony |
Summary |
Wide-ranging in scope, and with almost 700 musical examples from the Middle Ages to the present day, Tonality: An Owner's Manual weaves philosophy, mathematics, statistics, and computational analysis into a new and truly twenty-first century theory of music. It proposes a sweeping reformulation of the basic concepts of Western music theory, revealing simple structures underlying a wide range of practices from the Renaissance to contemporary pop. Each of its central chapters re-examines a basic music-theoretical concept such as voice leading, repetition, nonharmonic tones, the origins of tonal |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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5. The "Pastorale" sonata, Op. 28 |
Subject |
Tonality.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780197577127 |
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0197577121 |
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