Studies on the origin of harmonic tonality / Carl Dahlhaus ; translated by Robert O. Gjerdingen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahlhaus, Carl, 1928-1989, author.

Contributor:

Gjerdingen, Robert O., translator.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1111

Standardized Title:

Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der harmonischen Tonalität. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tonality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts of harmony and tonality, reviewing in the process the important theories of Rameau, Sechter, Ftis, Riemann, and Schenker. He contrasts the familiar premises of chordal composition with the lesser known precepts of intervallic composition, the basis for polyphonic music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Numerous "ations from theoretical treatises document how early music was driven forward not by progressions of chords but by simple progressions of intervals.Exactly when did composers transform intervallic composition into chordal composition? Modality into tonality? Dahlhaus provides extensive analyses of motets by Josquin, frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, and madrigals by Monteverdi to demonstrate how, and to what degree, such questions can be answered. In his bold speculations, in his magisterial summaries, in his command of eight centuries of music and writings on music, and in his deep understanding of European history and culture, Carl Dahlhaus sets a standard that will seldom be equalled.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator's Preface

A Guide to the Terminology of German Harmony / Gjerdingen, Robert O.

Introduction

I. The Theory of Harmonic Tonality

II. Intervallic and Chordal Composition

III. Mode and System

IV. Analyses

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Translation of: Untersuchungen uber die Entstehung der harmonischen Tonalitat.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-379) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-63704-0

0-691-60862-8

1-4008-6131-4

OCLC:

884012873