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Title: Tonality
Condition: New
Format: Hardback
Subtitle: An Owner's Manual
ISBN-10: 0197577105
EAN: 9780197577103
ISBN: 9780197577103
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Release Date: 12/14/2023
Description: This encyclopaedic book proposes a sweeping reformulation of the basic concepts of Western music theory, revealing simple structures underlying a wide range of practices from the Renaissance to contemporary pop. Its core innovation is a collection of simple geometrical models describing the implicit knowledge governing a broad range of music-making, much as the theory of grammar describes principles that tacitly guide our speaking and writing. Each of its central chapters re-examines a basic music-theoretical concept such as voice leading, repetition, nonharmonic tones, the origins of tonal harmony, the grammar of tonal harmony, modulation, and melody. These are flanked by two largely analytical chapters on rock harmony and Beethoven. Wide-ranging in scope, and with almost 700 musical examples from the Middle Ages to the present day, Tonality: An Owner's Manual weaves philosophy, mathematics, statistics, and computational analysis into a new and truly twenty-first century theory of music.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 162mm
Item Length: 185mm
Item Width: 35mm
Item Weight: 1286g
Author: Dmitri Tymoczko
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Book Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY
Type: Communication Studies
Release Year: 2023

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