Roots of the Classical
The Popular Origins of Western Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 December 2004
- ISBN 9780198166474
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 242x165x36 mm
- Weight 986 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous musical examples 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
'...a marvellously stimulating new book.'
Table of Contents:
I. The Melodic Foundations
The subtle mathematics of music
The Ramellian paradigm
The children's chant
The pentatonic scale
II. The Harmonic Revolution
Primitive harmony
The discovery of tonality
Rivals to tonality
Dissonance and discord
The evolution of tonality
III. The Melodic Counter-Revolution
The rude, the vulgar, and the polite
The debt to the East
The Phrygian Fringe
Drones and ostinatos
Outline, refrain, and sequence
Modes and scales
The dances of central Europe
The polka family
The waltz
The nineteenth-century vernacular
Romanticism
Romantic nationalism
The symphonic tradition
Wagner and the vernacular
Modernism
The popular style
The late vernacular
The blues and early jazz
