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Tonality 1900-1950 : concept and practice / edited by Felix Wörner, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht ; Joseph Auner [and fourteen others], contributors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tonality.
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music theory--History--20th century.
- Music theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012.
- Summary:
- Tonality - or the feeling of key in music - achieved crisp theoretical definition in the early 20th century, even as the musical avant-garde pronounced it obsolete. The notion of a general collapse or loss of tonality, ca. 1910, remains influential within music historiography, and yet the textbook narrative sits uneasily with a continued flourishing of tonal music throughout the past century. Tonality, from an early 21st-century perspective, never did fade from cultural attention; but it remains a prismatic formation, defined as much by ideological-cultural valences as by its role in techni
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Tonality as Concept and Category; Weighing, Measuring, Embalming Tonality: How we Became Phonometrographers; Peter, the Wolf, and the Hexatonic Uncanny; The Legacy of German Rule - Some Reflections on Another Musical Iceberg in the Transatlantic Relationships of Music History; Concepts of T onality in Hindemith's Unterweisung im Tonsatz and in His Late Writings; Tonality in Austro-German Theory; Concepts of Tonality in Schoenberg's Harmonielehre; Schoenberg's Harmonielehre: Psychology and Comprehensibility
- Construc tive and Destructive Forces: Ernst Kurth's Concept of TonalityPractices of Tonality; Defending Tonality: The Musical Thought of Milhaud and Koechlin; "Autant de compositeurs, autant de polytonalités différentes": Polytonality in French Music Theory and Composition of the 1920s; Nocturne in Blue, Black and Poppy Red: Tonal and Formal Dramaturgy in the third movement of Ravel's Sonate pour violon et violoncelle; Tonality on the Town: Orchestrating the Metropolis in Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony
- Between Archaism and Modernism: Tonality in Music for Amateurs in Germany around 1930Among the Ruined Languages: Britten's Triadic Modernism, 1930-1940; Roy Harris and the Crisis of Consonance; Samuel Barber's Nocturne: An Experiment in Tonal Serialism
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-515-10206-X
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