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Audacious Euphony - Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Hardcover)
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Audacious Euphony - Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic
progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of
18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the
two repertories under a single mode of representation.
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. In Audacious Euphony, author
Richard Cohn takes both of these views to task, arguing that
romantic harmony operates under syntactic principles distinct from
those that underlie classical tonality, but no less susceptible to
systematic definition. 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. Whereas their acoustic nature underlies the
diatonic tonality of the classical tradition, their voice-leading
properties are optimized by the pan-triadic progressions
characteristic of the 19th century. Audacious Euphony develops a
set of inter-related maps that organize intuitions about triadic
proximity as seen through the lens of voice-leading proximity,
using various geometries related to the 19th-century Tonnetz. This
model leads to cogent analyses both of particular compositions and
of historical trends across the long nineteenth century. Essential
reading for music theorists, Audacious Euphony is also a valuable
resource for music historians, performers and composers.
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