Tonality 1900-1950
Subtitle: concept and practice
By: edited by Felix Wörner, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht
Series: Musikwissenschaft
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783515101608
Subjects: Music theory; Tonality; History and criticism; Music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tonality as concept and category. Weighing, measuring, embalming tonality: how we became phonometrographers / Joseph Auner ; Peter, the wolf, and the hexatonic uncanny / Richard Cohn ; The legacy of German rule : some reflections on another musical iceberg in the transatlantic relationships of music history / Wolfgang Rathert ; Concepts of tonality in Hindemith's Unterweisung im Tonsatz and in his late writings / Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen; title: Tonality in Austro-German theory. Concepts of tonality in Schoenberg's Harmonielehre / Markus Böggemann ; Schoenberg's Harmonielehre : psychology and comprehensibility / Stephen Hinton ; Constructive and destructive forces : Ernst Kurth's concept of tonality / Felix Wörner; title: Practices of tonality. Defending tonality : the musical thought of Milhaud / Marianne Wheeldon ; "Autant de compositeurs, autant de polytonalités différentes" : polytonality in French music theory and composition of the 1920s / Mark Delaere ; Nocturne in blue, black and poppy red : tonal and formal dramaturgy in the third movement of Ravel's Sonate pour violon et violoncelle / Volker Helbing ; Tonality on the town : orchestrating the metropolis in Vaughan Williams's A London symphony / Alain Frogley ; Between archaism and modernism : tonality in music for amateurs in Germany around 1930 / Ullrich Scheideler ; Among the ruined languages : Britten's triadic modernism, 1930-1940 / Philip Rupprecht ; Roy Harris and the crisis of consonance / Beth E. Levy ; Samuel Barber's Nocturne : an experiment in tonal serialism / Daniel Harrison.