Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019977269X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Were Richard Cohn not already a household name among music theorists, this book would change that." --Kofi Agawu, Professor of Music, Princeton University; Author of Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music "Audacious Euphony synthesizes and extends the influential neo-Riemannian approach to chromatic tonality that Richard Cohn's earlier theoretical work helped develop. It lights up as never before the universe of triads domesticated in nineteenth-century chromatic music. While many of the essential concepts and analytical tools have been developed in previous scholarship, this book successfully unifies and expands upon these diverse ideas, providing the reader with a theoretically rigorous and historically informed approach to understanding the complex harmonic innovations of the long nineteenth century." --Music Research
Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic impulse. Charting this alternative triadic syntax, Cohn reconceives what consonant triads are, and how they relate to one another. In doing so, he shows that major and minor triads have two distinct natures: one based on their acoustic properties, and the other on their ability to voice-lead smoothly to each other in the chromatic universe. Essential reading for music theorists, Audacious Euphony is also a valuable resource for music historians, performers and composers.. Audacious Euphony develops a set of inter-related maps that organize intuitions ab
Michael C. said PRINTING ERROR!. Apparently many copies that Amazon purchased has a printing defect!! Each even page has a very light band of print running down the edge. I ordered one to replace the first one I bought and it has the same issue. Returning all and buying from somewhere else.. "All four theories merged; more than one theory can be true at the same time." according to Dagfinn Koch. As a European composer, used to the myth told about the emancipation of the dissonance, the necessity of burning bridges to the past instead of repairing them, the mixture of utopic modernism and nihilistic post-modernism, this is the book I didn't know existed: four theories on pitch and harmony . Jane S. Hernandez said The gentleman for whom I bought this book is ecstatic. The gentleman for whom I bought this book is ecstatic with it. He has added it to his permanent library and since he is a composer of note in Mexico, he anticipates that one day a public institution will have possession of his library and he is so proud that this book will be a part of that!
Cohn edits the Oxford Studies in Music Theory series. His articles have twice earned the Society for Music Theory's Outstanding Publication Award. In preparation is a general model of meter with applications for European, African, and African-diasporic music, and a co-edited collection on David Lewin's phenomenological writings.. Richard Cohn is Battell Professor of Music Theory a