Return to Riemann

ISBN-13: 9781032025056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 120 str.

Oliver Chandler

Opis

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Emeritus Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. 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. He is the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956-1983.