Roots of the Classical

The Popular Origins of Western Music

AvPeter Van der Merwe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Roots of the Classical identifies and traces to their sources the patterns that make Western classical music unique, setting out the fundamental laws of melody and harmony, and sketching the development of tonality between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The author then focuses on the years 1770-1910, treating the Western music of this period - folk, popular, and classical - as a single, organically developing, interconnected unit in which the popular idiom was constantly feeding into 'serious' music, showing how the same patterns underlay music of all kinds.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-12-09
Mått:165 x 242 x 36 mm
Vikt:986 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:576
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198166474

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Peter Van der Merwe spent two years at the South African College of Music in Cape Town but is largely self-taught. He is now working as a qualified librarian. He published his first book, 'Origins of the Popular Style' with OUP in 1989.

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Innehållsförteckning

I. THE MELODIC FOUNDATIONS ; 1. The subtle mathematics of music ; 2. The Ramellian paradigm ; 3. The children's chant ; 4. The pentatonic scale ; II. THE HARMONIC REVOLUTION ; 5. Primitive harmony ; 6. The discovery of tonality ; 7. Rivals to tonality ; 8. Dissonance and discord ; 9. The evolution of tonality ; III. THE MELODIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION ; 10. The rude, the vulgar, and the polite ; 11. The debt to the East ; The Phrygian Fringe ; Drones and ostinatos ; Outline, refrain, and sequence ; Modes and scales ; 12. The dances of central Europe ; The polka family ; The waltz ; 13. The nineteenth-century vernacular ; 14. Romanticism ; Romantic nationalism ; The symphonic tradition ; Wagner and the vernacular ; 15. Modernism ; 16. The popular style ; The late vernacular ; The blues and early jazz