Listen again : a new history of music

Listen again : a new history of music / David Wulstan.

How do you tell the key of a piece--without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a 'breakdown of tonality' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are...

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Main Author: Wulstan, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Music > History and criticism.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Some matters of terminology and other preliminaries
  • The recognition of key
  • Tonal balance and minor tonality : the use of sequences; dissonance
  • The rule of the octave : harmony and rhythm
  • The enhanced tonic : fugal technique and tonality
  • Complex key
  • The classical style
  • The classical style
  • Classical to romantic : Beethoven and Schubert
  • The romantic era (1) : Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn
  • The romantic era (2) : the age of Wagner
  • The perception of music
  • The twentieth century (1) : the palette of Debussy
  • The twentieth century (2) : themes and theories in the music of Stravinsky and some other composers
  • The twentieth century (3) : techniques and treatises : Bartók, Hindemith, and others
  • Saturday night and Sunday morning
  • Two cultures
  • Mediæval to Renaissance
  • Renaissance to Baroque
  • Back to the future.

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