Tonality 1900–1950 (eBook)

Concept and Practice

Felix Wörner, Ullrich Scheideler, Philip Rupprecht (Herausgeber)

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2012
276 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-10206-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Tonality - or the feeling of key in music - achieved crisp theoretical definition in the early 20th century, even as the musical avant-garde pronounced it obsolete. The notion of a general collapse or loss of tonality, ca. 1910, remains influential within music historiography, and yet the textbook narrative sits uneasily with a continued flourishing of tonal music throughout the past century. Tonality, from an early 21st-century perspective, never did fade from cultural attention; but it remains a prismatic formation, defined as much by ideological-cultural valences as by its role in technical understandings of musical practice. Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice brings together new essays by 15 leading American and European scholars.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Contributors 8
Introduction 12
Tonality as Concept and Category 24
Weighing, Measuring, Embalming Tonality: How we Became Phonometrographers 26
Peter, the Wolf, and the Hexatonic Uncanny 48
The Legacy of German Rule – Some Reflections on Another Musical Iceberg in the Transatlantic Relationships of Music History 64
Concepts of T onality in Hindemith’s Unterweisung im Tonsatz and in His Late Writings 82
Tonality in Austro-German Theory 98
Concepts of Tonality in Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre 100
Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre: Psychology and Comprehensibility 114
Construc tive and Destructive Forces: Ernst Kurth’s Concept of Tonality 126
Practices of Tonality 142
Defending Tonality: The Musical Thought of Milhaud and Koechlin 144
“Autant de compositeurs, autant de polytonalités différentes”: Polytonality in French Music Theory and Composition of the 1920s 158
Nocturne in Blue, Black and Poppy Red: Tonal and Formal Dramaturgy in the third movement of Ravel’s Sonate pour violon et violoncelle 174
Tonality on the Town: Orchestrating the Metropolis in Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony 188
Between Archaism and Modernism: Tonality in Music for Amateurs in Germany around 1930 204
Among the Ruined Languages: Britten’s Triadic Modernism, 1930–1940 224
Roy Harris and the Crisis of Consonance 248
Samuel Barber’s Nocturne: An Experiment in Tonal Serialism 262

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 11 schw.-w. Abb., zahlr. Notenbeisp.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Musik • Musikwissenschaft • Tonart
• ISBN-10: 3-515-10206-X / 351510206X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-10206-3 / 9783515102063