Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music: Nature and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780367880651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str.

Benedict Taylor

Opis

Edvard Grieg was enchanted by what he styled the ‘dreamworld’ of harmony, a magical realm whose principles the composer felt remained a mystery even to himself, and he was not alone in that the complex nature of late-Romantic harmony has proved a source of debate up to the present day. Grieg’s later piano music forms a particularly profitable re

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Musical Examples

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Enticements

1 Extending Tonality: Klang, Added-Note Harmonies, and the Emancipation of Sonority

2 Modality and Scalar-Modulation

3 Systematisation:

Chromaticism, Interval Cycles and Linear Progressions

Conclusion: Nature and Nationalism

Bibliography

Index of Grieg’s Works Cited

General Index

O autorze

Benedict Taylor is Chancellor’s Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (Cambridge, 2011) and The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era, forthcoming from Oxford in 2015.