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Chromatic transformations in nineteenth-century music / David Kopp

Author
Kopp, David
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Common-tone tonality -- Three examples of functional chromatic mediant relations in Schubert -- Key harmonic systems and notions of third relations form Rameau -- Hugo Riemann -- Twentieth-century theory and chromatic third relations -- Riemann's legacy and transformation theories -- A chromatic transformation system -- Chromatic mediant relations in musical contexts -- Five analyses.
Summary
David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms. The emphasis is on explaining chromatic third relations and the pivotal role they play in theory and practice. The book traces conceptions of harmonic system and of chromatic third relations from Rameau through nineteenth-century theorists such as Marx, Hauptmann and Riemann, to the seminal twentieth-century theorists Schenker and Schoenberg and on to the present day. Drawing on tenets of nineteenth-century harmonic theory, contemporary transformation theory and the author's own approach, the book presents a clear and elegant means for characterizing commonly acknowledged but loosely defined elements of chromatic harmony, and integrates them as fully fledged entities into a chromatically based conception of harmonic system. The historical and theoretical argument is supplemented by plentiful analytic examples.
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9780511481932 (ebook)
9780521804639 (hardback)
9780521028493 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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