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Author Brown, Matthew, 1957-

Title Explaining tonality : Schenkerian theory and beyond / Matthew Brown.

Publication Info. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  MT6.B80 E9 2005    Available  ---
Description xix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 27
Eastman studies in music ; v. 27.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
Contents Schenker and the quest for accuracy. Fux and strict counterpoint ; 'The Heinrich maneuver' ; 'The complementarity principle' -- Semper idem sed non eodem modo. Conceptual origins ; Prototypes ; Transformations ; Levels ; Fallout -- What price consistency? Sequences reconsidered ; Sequences and counterpoint ; Analytical implications -- Schenker and 'the myth of scales'. Modes and scales in traditional theory ; Schenkerian theory and scales ; Schenkerian theory and modal inflections ; Schenkerian theory and exotic inflections ; Schenkerian theory and the emergence of functional tonality -- "Pleasure is the law". The limits of Schenkerian theory ; Debussy, "C'est l'extase langoureuse" ; Debussy, "La mort des amants" ; Schenkerian theory and twentieth-century music -- Renaturalizing Schenkerian theory. naturalizating Schenker theory ; Schenkerian theory as a model of expert functional monotonal composition.
Subject Schenkerian analysis.
Schenkerian analysis.
Tonality.
Tonality.
ISBN 1580461603 hardcover alkaline paper