Pentatonicism from the eighteenth century to Debussy
By: Jeremy Day-O'Connell.
Series: Eastman studies in music -- v. 46
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9781580462488
Subjects: Pentatonic scales; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Scale. The rise of 6 in the nineteenth century; title: Signification. The pastoral-exotic pentatonic ; The religious pentatonic; title: Beyond signification. The pentatonic glissando ; Debussy and the pentatonic tradition.