Tonality Since 1950
Edited by Felix Wörner Edited by Ullrich Scheideler Edited by Philip Rupprecht
Hardback (Published)
(March 2017)
ISBN: 9783515115827
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $92.00
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Tonality Since 1950 documents the debate surrounding one of the most basic technical and artistic resources of music in the later 20th century. The flourishing of tonality – a return to key, pitch center, and consonance – in recent decades has undermined received views of its disintegration or collapse ca. 1910, intensifying the discussion of music’s acoustical-theoretical bases, and of its broader cultural and metaphysical meanings. While historians of 20th-century music have often marginalized tonal practices, the present volume offers a new emphasis on emergent historical continuities. Musicians as diverse as Hindemith, the Beatles, Reich, and Saariaho have approached tonality from many different angles: as a figure of nostalgic longing, or as a universal law; as a quoted artefact of music’s sedimented stylistic past, or as a timeless harmonic resource. Essays by 15 leading researchers cover a wide repertoire of concert and pop/rock music composed in Europe and America over the past half-century.
Felix Worner is a research associate and Lecturer in the Music Department of the University of Basel and serves as co-editor of the Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie. Ullrich Scheideler is Head of Music Theory at Humboldt-University in Berlin and a former editor of the Arnold Schoenberg Critical Edition. Philip Rupprecht is Professor of Music at Duke University. He is the author of British Musical Modernism: the Manchester Group and their Contemporaries and editor of Rethinking Britten.
- Edited by Felix Wörner
- Edited by Ullrich Scheideler
- Edited by Philip Rupprecht
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