Towards Tonality

Aspects of Baroque Music Theory

Thomas Christensen, Penelope Gouk, Gérard Geay, Susan McClary, Markus Jans (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

205 Seiten

2007
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
978-90-5867-587-3 (ISBN)

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Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute 6 "We have developed a tremendous amount of what might best be referred to as journalistic knowledge concerning the ways that musicians of earlier periods thought about musical structures. Now that we have...

This is a collection of essays based on lectures presented at the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory on "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music". The often complex connections and intersections between, e.g., modal and tonal idioms, contrapuntal and harmonic organisation, were considered from various perspectives as to the transition (towards tonality) from the Renaissance to the Baroque era.

Thomas Christensen is Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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Penelope Gouk
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Gérard Geay
L'édition de la polyphonie française du 17e siècle

Susan McClary
Towards a History of Harmonic Tonality

Markus Jans
Towards a History of the Origin and Development of the Rule of the Octave

Joel Lester
Thoroughbass as a Path to Composition in the Early Eighteenth Century

Marc Vanscheeuwijck
Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Petronio Franceschini: Building Acoustics and Compositional Style in Late Seventeenth-Century Bologna

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Reihe/Serie	Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute
Verlagsort	Leuven
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 239 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	90-5867-587-4 / 9058675874
ISBN-13	978-90-5867-587-3 / 9789058675873
Zustand	Neuware