| Description |
xvii, 558 pages : music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-516) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The melodic foundations. The subtle mathematics of music -- The Ramellian paradigm -- The children's chant -- The pentatonic scale -- pt. 3. The harmonic revolution. Primitive harmony -- The discovery of tonality -- Rivals to tonality -- Dissonance and discord -- The evolution of tonality -- pt. 3. The melodic counter-revolution. The rude, the vulgar, and the polite -- The debt to the East -- The dances of central Europe -- The nineteenth-century vernacular -- Romanticism -- Modernism -- The popular style. |
| Subject |
Music theory.
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Music theory. |
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Music -- Origin.
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Music -- Origin. |
| ISBN |
0198166478 |
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