Audacious euphony : chromaticism and the consonant triad's second nature / Richard Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Richard Lawrence, 1955-

Series:

Oxford studies in music theory.

Oxford studies in music theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmony.

Triads (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance 'Audacious Euphony' advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; About the Companion Web Site; 1 Mapping the Triadic Universe; Three Ways to Calculate Triadic Distance; Triads in Chromatic Space; Remarks on Syntax and Maps; 2 Hexatonic Cycles; A Minimal-Work Model of the Triadic Universe; The Hexatonic Trance; Contrary Motion and Balance; Hexatonic Progressions, Tonnetz Representations, and Triadic Transformations; Near Evenness, Minimal Voice Leading, and the Central Role of Augmented Triads ; Remarks on Dualism; Triadic Structure Generates Pan-Triadic Syntax; Triads Are Homophonous Diamorphs; 3 Reciprocity

The Historical Emergence of Augmented TriadsConsonance/Dissonance Reciprocity; Two Early-Century Examples: Beethoven and Schubert; Three Late-Century Examples: Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré; Reciprocity in Weitzmann's Der Ubermässige Dreiklang; 4 Weitzmann Regions; The Structure of a Weitzmann Region; Weitzmann Transformations and N/R Cycles; Remarks on the Tonnetz; Historical Origins of Weitzmann Regions; The Double-Agent Complex; Expanded N/R Chains; Weitzmann Regions without Sequences: Wagner and Strauss; 5 A Unified Model of Triadic Voice-Leading Space

8 Syntactic Interaction and the Convertible TonnetzSome Previous Proposals; The Diatonic Tonnetz; Horizontal Extensions; Vertical Extensions; The Convertible Tonnetz; Two Analytical Vignettes: Wagner and Brahms; 9 Double Syntax and the Soft Revolution; A Summary Example from Schubert; Double Syntax and Its Skeptics; Code Switching and Double Determination; Cognitive Opacity; The Soft Revolution; On Musical Overdetermination; Glossary; A; B; C; D; G; H; I; L; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).

ISBN:

1-283-42289-1

9786613422897

0-19-977321-1

OCLC:

794925477