Michael R. Dodds (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Univers

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. Through deep engagement with the corpus of Western music theory, author Michael R. Dodds presents a model to clarify the factors of this complex shift.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780199338153
• ISBN-10: 0199338159
• Artikelnr.: 68056166

Autorenporträt

Michael R. Dodds is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His callings as scholar, artist, and teacher are united by a life-long fascination with the conceptualization of tonal structures, especially in the contexts of sacred music. The story of Dodds as an artist is the subject of the 2023 documentary Blessed Unrest: A Composer's Awakening.

Inhaltsangabe

Epigraph
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1: A Model for Change in Modal Theory and Practice
Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Modal Systems
Chapter 3: Making Sense of Early Modern Modal Theory
Chapter 4: The Tuoni in Italian Renaissance Theory
Chapter 5: The Baroque Church Tones in Western European Theory
Chapter 6: Two Modes
Chapter 7: Organizing Schemes for the Two Modes
Chapter 8: Changing Concepts of Tonal Space
Chapter 9: Musical Circles and Labyrinths
Bibliography
Name Index
General Index