Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A New Theory of Tonality - Tapa dura

Burnett, Henry; Nitzberg, Roy

 
9780754651628: Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A New Theory of Tonality
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ISBN 10: 0754651622 ISBN 13: 9780754651628
Editorial: Routledge, 2007

Sinopsis

Musicology, having been transmitted as a compilation of disparate events and disciplines, has long necessitated a ’magic bullet’, a ’unified field theory’ so to speak, that can interpret the steady metamorphosis of Western art music from late medieval modality to twentieth-century atonality within a single theoretical construct. Burnett and Nitzberg challenge the traditional understanding of development, and advance a new theory of eleven-pitch tonality as it relates to the corpus of Western composition. The book plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process itself. The authors move beyond existing theory and analysis to base their theory from the standpoint of chromatic ’pitch fields’. These fields are the specific chromatic pitch choices that a composer uses to inform and design a complete composition, utilizing specific chromatic inflections to control a large-scale working out process that is the very essence of ’development’. In short, the authors claim that a chromatic background that coexists with a diatonic contrapuntal background may define the process of compositional development. These chromatic and diatonic events are the two genus expressions of slowly unfolding tonic octaves.

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Henry Burnett is Professor of Music and Roy Nitzberg is Visiting Lecturer both at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, The City University of New York, USA.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0754651622
ISBN 13 
9780754651628
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
430
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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