In 1861, a half-century before Arnold Schoenberg's break with tonality, a young composer associated with Liszt saw a threshold to musical modernism as lodged in the "suspension of the main key." As the unified tonal perspective of the earlier music yielded increasingly to dualis…
This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harriso…
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
First coined in the early 19th century, tonality denotes music that focuses melodically and/or harmonically on some stable pitch or tonic, especially functional triads. This volume shows why Schenker was able to explain tonal relationships so successfully and why his explanation…
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Verkenningen van de betekenis van tonaliteit in de muziek, met als vertrekpunt de theorieën daarover van de musicoloog Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935).
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
Explaining tonality: Schenkerian theory and beyond
"Matthew Brown's Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond considers a number of disparate ways in which functional tonality has been understood. In particular, it focuses on the comprehensive theory developed by Heinrich Schenker in his monumental three-part treatise N…