Roots of the classical : the popular origins of western music

Roots of the classical : the popular origins of western music / Peter Van der Merwe.

"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...

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Main Author: Van der Merwe, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Music theory.
Music > Origin.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Music > Origin
Music theory
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The melodic foundations
  • 1. The subtle mathematics of music
  • 2. The Ramellian paradigm
  • 3. The children's chant
  • 4. The pentatonic scale
  • pt. 2. The harmonic revolution
  • 5. Primitive harmony
  • 6. The discovery of tonality
  • 7. Rivals to tonality
  • 8. Dissonance and discord
  • 9. The evolution of tonality
  • pt. 3. The melodic counter-revolution
  • 10. The rude, the vulgar, and the polite
  • 11. The debt to the East
  • 12. The dances of Central Europe
  • 13. The nineteenth-century vernacular
  • 14. Romanticism
  • 15. Modernism
  • 16. The popular style.

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