Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis / Thomas Christensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christensen, Thomas, Author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fétis, François-Joseph, 1784-1871.

Fétis, François-Joseph.

Tonality--History--19th century.

Tonality.

Music theory--History--19th century.

Music theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations, portraits, music

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity for Europeans during this time as they learned more about "other" musics and alternative tonal systems. Tonality became a central vortex in which French musicians thought-and argued-about a variety of musical repertoires, be they contemporary European musics of the stage, concert hall, or church, folk songs from the provinces, microtonal scale systems of Arabic and Indian music, or the medieval and Renaissance music whose notational traces were just beginning to be deciphered by scholars. Fétis's influential writings offer insight into how tonality ingrained itself within nineteenth-century music discourse, and why it has continued to resonate with uncanny prescience throughout the musical upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1. Tonal Imaginations

2. Chant

3. Origins

4. Song

5. Orienting Tonality

6. Theory

7. Tonal Futures

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226627083

022662708X

OCLC:

1102046064