| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 559 pages) : music |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The melodic foundations -- 1. The subtle mathematics of music -- 2. The Ramellian paradigm -- 3. The children's chant -- 4. The pentatonic scale -- pt. 2. The harmonic revolution -- 5. Primitive harmony -- 6. The discovery of tonality -- 7. Rivals to tonality -- 8. Dissonance and discord -- 9. The evolution of tonality -- pt. 3. The melodic counter-revolution -- 10. The rude, the vulgar, and the polite -- 11. The debt to the East -- 12. The dances of Central Europe -- 13. The nineteenth-century vernacular -- 14. Romanticism -- 15. Modernism -- 16. The popular style |
| Summary |
"Roots of the Classical identifies and traces to their sources the patterns that make Western classical music unique, setting out the fundamental laws of melody and harmony, and sketching the development of tonality between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The author then focuses on the years 1770-1910, treating the Western music of this period - folk, popular, and classical - as a single, organically developing, interconnected unit in which thepopular idiom was constantly feeding into 'serious' music, showing how the same patterns underlay music of all kinds"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-519) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music theory.
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Music -- Origin.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Music -- Origin
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Music theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191513268 |
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0191513261 |
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9781429458214 |
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1429458216 |
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