Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music
Author: Daniel Harrison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1994-05-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780226318080

Applicable on a wide scale not only to this repertory, Harrison's lucid explications of abstract theoretical concepts provide new insights into the workings of tonal systems in general.

Hearing Harmony

Hearing Harmony
Author: Christopher Doll
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472053523

An original, listener-based approach to harmony for popular music from the rock era of the 1950s to the present

Audacious Euphony

Audacious Euphony
Author: Richard Cohn
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-01-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019977269X

Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance, Audacious Euphony advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music. Author Rick Cohn uncovers the source of the indeterminacy and uncanniness of romantic music, as he focuses on the slippage between chromatic and diatonic progressions and the systematic principles under which each operate.

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony
Author: Joe Mulholland
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480360856

(Berklee Guide). Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principles, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.

Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology

Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology
Author: Samuel Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317092651

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics—from the romantic and the modernist to the contemporary popular. Drawing on the work of Freud, Lacan, Jung, Žižek, Barthes, and others, it demonstrates the efficacy of psychoanalytic theories in fields such as music analysis, music and culture, and musical improvisation. It engages debates about both the methods through which music is understood and the situations in which it is experienced, including those of performance and listening. This collection is an invaluable resource for students, lecturers, researchers, and anyone else interested in the intersections between music, psychoanalysis, and musicology.

Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought

Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Author: Alexander Rehding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521820738

Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, however, belies the contentious idea at the heart of his musical thought, an idea he defended for most of his career - harmonic dualism. By situating Riemann's musical thought within turn-of-the-century discourses about the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs the cultural context in which Riemann's ideas not only 'made sense' but advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann's musical thought - from his considerations of acoustical properties to his aesthetic and music-historical views - thus regains the coherence and cultural urgency that it once possessed.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory
Author: Alexander Rehding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2019
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190454741

Music Theory operates with a number of fundamental terms that are rarely explored in detail. This book offers in-depth reflections on key concepts from a range of philosophical and critical approaches that reflect the diversity of the contemporary music theory landscape.

Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music

Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music
Author: Inessa Bazayev
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000179303

This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research has situated this repertoire in its historical and social context, yet few analytical studies have explored the technical aspects of these composers' styles. With a set of representative analyses by leading scholars in music theory and analysis, this book for the first time identifies large-scale compositional trends in Russian music since 1900. The chapters progress by compositional style through the century, and each addresses a single work by a different composer, covering pieces by Rachmaninoff, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mansurian, Roslavets, Mosolov, Lourié, Tcherepnin, Ustvolskaya, Denisov, Gubaidulina, and Schnittke. Musicians, scholars, and students will find here a starting point for research and analysis of these composers' works and gain a richer understanding of how to listen to and interpret their music.

Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony
Author: Robert W. Wason
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580465757

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories
Author: Edward Gollin
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195321332

In recent years neo-Riemannian theory has established itself as the leading approach of our time, and has proven particularly adept at explaining features of chromatic music. The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories assembles an international group of leading music theory scholars in an exploration of the music-analytical, theoretical, and historical aspects of this new field.