Listen again : a new history of music / David Wulstan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wulstan, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do you tell the key of a piece without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a "breakdown of tonality" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are the focus of Wulstan's Listen Again.

Contents:

Some matters of terminology and other preliminaries

The recognition of key

Tonal balance and minor tonality : the use of sequences; dissonance

The rule of the octave : harmony and rhythm

The enhanced tonic : fugal technique and tonality

Complex key

The classical style

Classical to romantic : Beethoven and Schubert

The romantic era (1) : Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn

The romantic era (2) : the age of Wagner

The perception of music

The twentieth century (1) : the palette of Debussy

The twentieth century (2) : themes and theories in the music of Stravinsky and some other composers

The twentieth century (3) : techniques and treatises : Bartók, Hindemith, and others

Saturday night and Sunday morning

Two cultures

Mediæval to Renaissance

Renaissance to Baroque

Back to the future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4422-3750-3