Chromaticism
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9783718657049
Subjects: Elements of music (eg harmony, melody, etc); Music; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music / General; Theory; General; Chromaticism (Music)
First sentence: Concepts have their own history, and their real meaning may quite often differ from their original one.
Table of contents: value: CONTENTS Introduction												ix Chapter 1        EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF CHROMATICISM				1 1.1      Formation of the concept. The pyknon principle							1 1.2      The Aristoxenian theory										5 1.3      Metabole											9 1.4      Chromaticism in the system of medieval categories: handing on the baton of concepts		10 1.5      The dialectics of concept and phenomenon							11 1.6      Musica ficta ?											12 1.7      Mutation and chromaticism									16 1.8      Marchetto da Padua. The premises for the rise of the modern concept of chromaticism		17 1.9      Classification of intervallic systems in the Middle Ages						20 1.10    Development of the concept of chromaticism during the Renaissance				22 1.11    At the turning point. Chromaticism and chordal harmony						23 1.12    Rameau's theory											24 1.13    Chromaticism and functional theory. The principle of alteration					29 1.14    Schenker's theory. Chromaticism as "polydiatonicism"						29 1.15    Chromaticism and the extension of the concept of tonality					31 1.16    Polymodality as a conceptual principle of chromaticism						32 Chapter 2        CHROMATICISM AS A CATEGORY OF MUSICAL THINKING			35 2.1       Intervallic systems: historical aspects of development						35 2.2      On different genera of intervallic systems							38 2.3      Chromaticism in relation to other categories							44 2.4   Systematisation and differentiation of concepts							48 Chapter 3      HISTORICAL TYPES OF CHROMATICISM						55 3.1    Antiquity												55 3.2    Byzantine musical culture										60 3.3    The Middle Ages											74 3.4    The Renaissance											88 (a)    Chromatic madrigals in mid-sixteenth-century music						97 (b)    The chromatic principles of Gesualdo di Venosa							105 3.5	The stile moderno						111 	(a)    Chromaticism and musical rhetoric						116 	(b)    Chromaticism and tonality						122 Chapter 4	CHROMATIC SYSTEMS IN 20th-CENTURY MUSIC					140 4.1	Expanded tonality						140 4.2	Modal systems						163 4.3	Free 12-tone systems						173 4.4	Strict 12-tone systems						188 4.5	The domains adjacent to chromaticism						194 Conclusion							199 References 												203 Index													210 About the author Vladimir Barsky is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire, where he also completed his postgraduate studies under the supervision of the eminent mu¬sicologist Yuri Kholopov He was the Editor-in-Chief of Music in the USSR maga¬zine, and the author of more than fifty publications where he investigates harmony, modern composers and musical creativity.