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Author Kopp, David

Title Chromatic transformations in nineteenth-century music / David Kopp
Edition 1st ed
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 17
Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis ; 17.
Contents Common-tone tonality -- Three examples of functional chromatic mediant relations in Schubert -- Key harmonic systems and notions of third relations form Rameau -- Hugo Riemann -- Twentieth-century theory and chromatic third relations -- Riemann's legacy and transformation theories -- A chromatic transformation system -- Chromatic mediant relations in musical contexts -- Five analyses
Summary David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in theory and practice. The book traces conceptions of harmonic system and of chromatic third relations from Rameau through nineteenth-century theorists such as Marx, Hauptmann, and Riemann, to the seminal twentieth-century theorists Schenker and Schoenberg and on to the present day. Drawing on tenets of nineteenth-century harmonic theory, contemporary transformation theory, and the author's own approach, the book presents a clear and elegant means for characterizing commonly acknowledged but loosely defined elements of chromatic harmony, and integrates them as fully-fledged entities into a chromatically-based conception of harmonic system. The historical and theoretical argument is supplemented by plentiful analytic examples.--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-269) and index
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Subject Harmony.
Chromaticism (Music)
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Music
music (discipline)
MUSIC -- Religious -- Gospel.
Chromaticism (Music)
Harmony
Music
Chromatik
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511481932
0511481934
0511063725
9780511063725
1280419091
9781280419096
9786610419098
6610419094
Other Titles Chromatic transformations in 19th-century music