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Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality (Hardcover)
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Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the
postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the
world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental
work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of
the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts
of harmony and tonality, reviewing in the process the important
theories of Rameau, Sechter, Ftis, Riemann, and Schenker. He
contrasts the familiar premises of chordal composition with the
lesser known precepts of intervallic composition, the basis for
polyphonic music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Numerous
quotations from theoretical treatises document how early music was
driven forward not by progressions of chords but by simple
progressions of intervals. Exactly when did composers transform
intervallic composition into chordal composition? Modality into
tonality? Dahlhaus provides extensive analyses of motets by
Josquin, frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, and madrigals by
Monteverdi to demonstrate how, and to what degree, such questions
can be answered. In his bold speculations, in his magisterial
summaries, in his command of eight centuries of music and writings
on music, and in his deep understanding of European history and
culture, Carl Dahlhaus sets a standard that will seldom be
equalled. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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