Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

Author:   J. P. E. Harper-Scott ,  Oliver Chandler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032025056


Pages:   90
Publication Date:   16 February 2024
Format:   Hardback
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This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second, in terms of its philosophical approach, it reawakens the critical-theoretical examination of the relation between music and the late capitalist society that is sedimented in the musical materials themselves, and which the music, in turn, subjects to aesthetically embodied critique. The music, the theory, and the listeners and critics who respond to them are all radically reimagined. This book will be of interest to professional music theorists, undergraduates, and technically inclined musicians and listeners, that is, anyone who is fascinated by the chromatic magic of late-nineteenth-century music.

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Author:   J. P. E. Harper-Scott ,  Oliver Chandler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.100kg
ISBN:  

9781032025056


ISBN 10:   1032025050
Pages:   90
Publication Date:   16 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Riemannian Theory and the Problem of Chromatic Function 2. Waltraute’s Plaint: Riemannian Tonal Function and Dramatic Narrative 3. Two Nineteenth-Century Examples of Hexatonic-Diatonic Tonal Function 4. The Multiple Lives of Seventh Chords 5. ‘Here Time Becomes Space’: Schenkerising Riemann/Riemannising Schenker

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J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Emeritus Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Event of Music History, Ideology in Britten’s Operas, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism, and Edward Elgar, Modernist. Oliver Chandler is an Academic Professor at the Royal College of Music and stipendiary lecturer in music at Keble and Hertford Colleges, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983.

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