Music Theory And The Exploration Of The Past
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Author | : Christopher Hatch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226319024 |
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In recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group of essays—written by theorists and musicologists—that seek to bridge this gap. This collection shows that music theory can join forces with historical musicology to produce a more humanistic form of musical scholarship. In nineteen essays dealing with musical theories from the twelfth to the twentieth century, two recurring themes emerge. One is the need to understand the historical circumstances of the writing and reception of theory, a humanistic approach that gives theory a place within social and intellectual history. The other is the advantages of applying contemporaneous theory to the music of a given period, thus linking theory to the history of musical styles and structures. The periods given principal attention in these essays are the Renaissance, the years around 1800, and the twentieth century. Abundantly illustrated with musical examples, Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past offers models of new practical applications of theory to the analysis of music. At the same time, it raises the broader question of how historical knowledge can deepen the understanding of an art and of systematic writings about that art.
Author | : Christopher Hatch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226319018 |
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In recent decades, increased specialization has sharply separated music theory from historical musicology. Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past brings together a group of essays—written by theorists and musicologists—that seek to bridge this gap. This collection shows that music theory can join forces with historical musicology to produce a more humanistic form of musical scholarship. In nineteen essays dealing with musical theories from the twelfth to the twentieth century, two recurring themes emerge. One is the need to understand the historical circumstances of the writing and reception of theory, a humanistic approach that gives theory a place within social and intellectual history. The other is the advantages of applying contemporaneous theory to the music of a given period, thus linking theory to the history of musical styles and structures. The periods given principal attention in these essays are the Renaissance, the years around 1800, and the twentieth century. Abundantly illustrated with musical examples, Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past offers models of new practical applications of theory to the analysis of music. At the same time, it raises the broader question of how historical knowledge can deepen the understanding of an art and of systematic writings about that art.
Author | : Thomas Christensen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1033 |
Release | : 2006-04-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1316025489 |
Download The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author | : Joanne Haroutounian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1993-05-01 |
Genre | : Music appreciation |
ISBN | : 9780849795336 |
Download Explorations in Music Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Third in a series designed to expand the idea of music theory to points beyond the written page, to have students realize that the music they are performing, listening to, and composing evolves from the realm of music theory. Book 3 covers notes on the grand staff, rhythm, eighth notes, intervals, pentachords, and triads.
Author | : N. Alan Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-12-21 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781940771335 |
Download Understanding Music Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!
Author | : Ian Bent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1996-08-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521551021 |
Download Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Twelve brilliant historians of theory probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music.
Author | : Kenneth M. Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 019092344X |
Download Desire in Chromatic Harmony Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.
Author | : CristleCollins Judd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351556835 |
Download Musical Theory in the Renaissance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.
Author | : RobertP. Morgan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351557149 |
Download Music Theory, Analysis, and Society Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author of the well-known Norton volume Twentieth-Century Music, and of additional books relating to Schenkerian and other theory, analysis and society. This volume of Morgan‘s previously published essays encompasses a broad range of issues, including historical and social issues and is of importance to anyone concerned with modern Western music. His specially written introduction treats his writings as a whole but also provides additional material relating to the articles included in this volume.
Author | : Michael R. Dodds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2023-12-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199338159 |
Download From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. Through deep engagement with the corpus of Western music theory, author Michael R. Dodds presents a model to clarify the factors of this complex shift.