Megan Kaes Long

Hearing Homophony

Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In Hearing Homophony, Megan Kaes Long presents a groundbreaking model for understanding tonality and its origins, examining it through the lens of popular songs of late-Renaissance Western Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780190851903
• ISBN-10: 0190851902
• Artikelnr.: 58341691

Autorenporträt

Megan Kaes Long is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Her work explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century secular song traditions, the theories that describe them, and the ways in which they inform the histories of modality and tonality.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* About the Companion Website
* Chapter 1: How We Got into Harmonic Tonality, and How to Get Out
* Chapter 2: La questione della lingua: Transmission and Translation of
Musical Style
* Chapter 3: The Work of the Words
* Chapter 4: Halves Requiring Completion
* Chapter 5: From Phrase Structure to Form: The Balletto
* Chapter 6: Tonal Orientation: New Tools for Navigating the Formal
Landscape
* Chapter 7: Humanism and the Invention of Homophony
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Index