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Hearing harmony : toward a tonal theory for the rock era / Christopher Doll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doll, Christopher (Composer), author.
- Series:
- Tracking pop
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rock music--Analysis, appreciation.
- Rock music.
- Harmony.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : music.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas. The identification of these schemas, as well as the historical contextualization of many of them, allows for systematic exploration of the repertory's typical harmonic transformations (such as chord substitution) and harmonic ambiguities. Doll provides readers with a novel explanation of the assorted aural qualities of chords, and how certain harmonic effects result from the interaction of various melodic, rhythmic, textural, timbral, and extra-musical contexts, and how these interactions can determine whether a chordal riff is tonally centered or tonally ambiguous, whether it sounds aggressive or playful or sad, whether it seems to evoke an earlier song using a similar series of chords, whether it sounds conventional or unfamiliar.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Tonic and Pre-Tonic 17
- Chordal Identity 17
- Tonal Center and Tonic Function 20
- Pre-Tonic Function: Dominant and Subdominant 25
- Dominant and Subdominant Subtypes 34
- Pre-Tonic Function: Mediant versus Dominant 39
- Chapter 2 Chains, Numerals, and Levels 49
- Chained Functions 49
- Numerals 55
- Numerals versus Functions 60
- Harmonic Levels, Functional Strengths, and Identity as Effect 66
- Additional Functions 73
- Chapter 3 Short and Slot Schemas 83
- Two-Chord Loops and Cadences 83
- Common Three-Chord Loops and Cadences 91
- Rarer Three-Chord Loops and Cadences 100
- Three Numerals in Four Slots 104
- Four Numerals in Four Slots: Part I 110
- Four Numerals in Four Slots: Part II 115
- Four Numerals in Four Slots: Part III 120
- Chapter 4 Pentatonic, Meta-, and Extended Schemas 126
- Pentatonic Schemas 126
- Meta-Schemas: Part I 137
- Meta-Schemas: Part II 153
- Extended Schemas: Part I 162
- Extended Schemas: Part II 173
- Chapter 5 Transformational Effects 188
- Altering the Aurally Prior 188
- Harmonic Transformees 191
- Kinds of Harmonic Transformation: Part I 200
- Kinds of Harmonic Transformation: Part II 207
- Chapter 6 Ambiguous Effects 215
- Disambiguating Ambiguity 215
- Centric and Functional Information: Part I 221
- Centric and Functional Information: Part II 229
- Centric and Scalar Ambiguity 238
- Ambiguous Two-Chord Loops 243
- Ambiguous Three-Chord and Slot Schemas 249
- Functional Ambiguity 256.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472073528
- 0472073524
- 9780472053520
- 0472053523
- 9780472122882
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.3079295
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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