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A Geometry of Music - Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Hardcover)
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A Geometry of Music - Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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How is the Beatles' "Help " similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the
Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the
improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the
non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords?
In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new
framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the
commonalities among styles from medieval polyphony to contemporary
rock. Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly
contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how these features
recur throughout the history of Western music. In the process he
sheds new light on an age-old question: what makes music sound
good?
A Geometry of Music provides an accessible introduction to
Tymoczko's revolutionary geometrical approach to music theory. The
book shows how to construct simple diagrams representing
relationships among familiar chords and scales, giving readers the
tools to translate between the musical and visual realms and
revealing surprising degrees of structure in otherwise
hard-to-understand pieces.
Tymoczko uses this theoretical foundation to retell the history of
Western music from the eleventh century to the present day. Arguing
that traditional histories focus too narrowly on the "common
practice" period from 1680-1850, he proposes instead that Western
music comprises an extended common practice stretching from the
late middle ages to the present. He discusses a host of familiar
pieces by a wide range of composers, from Bach to the Beatles,
Mozart to Miles Davis, and many in between.
A Geometry of Music is accessible to a range of readers, from
undergraduate music majors to scientists and mathematicians with an
interest in music. Defining its terms along the way, it presupposes
no special mathematical background and only a basic familiarity
with Western music theory. The book also contains exercises
designed to reinforce and extend readers' understanding, along with
a series of appendices that explore the technical details of this
exciting new theory.
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