Peter Van Der Merwe

Roots of the Classical (eBook, PDF)

The Popular Origins of Western Music

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Produktbeschreibung

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 years 1770-1910, treating the Western music of this period - folk, popular, and classical - as a single, organically developing, interconnected unit in which the popular idiom was constantly feeding into 'serious' music, showing how the same patterns underlay music of all kinds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191513268
• Artikelnr.: 38129098

Autorenporträt

Peter Van der Merwe spent two years at the South African College of Music in Cape Town but is largely self-taught. He is now working as a qualified librarian. He published his first book, 'Origins of the Popular Style' with OUP in 1989.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Melodic Foundations
1: The subtle mathematics of music
2: The Ramellian paradigm
3: The children's chant
4: The pentatonic scale
II. The Harmonic Revolution
5: Primitive harmony
6: The discovery of tonality
7: Rivals to tonality
8: Dissonance and discord
9: The evolution of tonality
III. The Melodic Counter-Revolution
10: The rude, the vulgar, and the polite
11: The debt to the East
The Phrygian Fringe
Drones and ostinatos
Outline, refrain, and sequence
Modes and scales
12: The dances of central Europe
The polka family
The waltz
13: The nineteenth-century vernacular
14: Romanticism
Romantic nationalism
The symphonic tradition
Wagner and the vernacular
15: Modernism
16: The popular style
The late vernacular
The blues and early jazz