Desire in Chromatic Harmony
Title | Desire in Chromatic Harmony PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth M. Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019092344X |
How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.
Audacious Euphony
Title | Audacious Euphony PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cohn |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199773211 |
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.
A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody
Title | A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Liebman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music
Title | Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Harrison |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1994-05-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780226318080 |
Applicable on a wide scale not only to this repertory, Harrison's lucid explications of abstract theoretical concepts provide new insights into the workings of tonal systems in general.
How to Create Jazz Chord Progressions
Title | How to Create Jazz Chord Progressions PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Marohnic |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 48 |
Release | |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457494055 |
Chuck Marohnic gives the keyboard player a basic vocabulary of scales and chords, chord changes and voicings. Included is information about the cycle of fifths, the III-V-I progression, chord substitutions, blues, turn-arounds, relative majors/minors.
Chromatic Harmony
Title | Chromatic Harmony PDF eBook |
Author | Justine Shir-Cliff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Harmony Book
Title | Harmony Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Carter |
Publisher | Carl Fischer, L.L.C. |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780825845949 |
This comprehensive resource features more than 400 projections and colour illustrations augmented by MRI images for added detail to enhance the anatomy and positioning presentations.