Title: Composition, chromaticism and the developmental process : a new theory of tonality /
Authors: Burnett, Henry; Nitzberg, Roy.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Tonality.; Chromaticism (Music)
Abstract: This study seeks to explore the nature of chromaticism in modal and tonal music from the 16th century to the opening of the 20th. It is meant primarily for the educated music public that has a thorough grounding in music theory with at least a modicum of historical perspective.
Contents: Introduction -- Eleven-pitch-class tonality -- The modal gamut in the sixteenth century -- Tonality and systems in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- Tonality and systems in the mid- to late-eighteenth century : the classical ideal -- Nineteenth-century approaches to eleven-pitch-class systems derived from the Viennese classical tradition -- Eleven-pitch-class systems in the music of mid- to late-nineteenth-century Romantic composers -- The Romantic avant garde and the rumblings of modernism.