{"product_id":"tonality-9780197577103","title":"Tonality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis encyclopaedic book proposes a sweeping reformulation of the basic concepts of Western music theory, revealing simple structures underlying a wide range of practices from the Renaissance to contemporary pop. Its core innovation is a collection of simple geometrical models describing the implicit knowledge governing a broad range of music-making, much as the theory of grammar describes principles that tacitly guide our speaking and writing. Each of its central chapters re-examines a basic music-theoretical concept such as voice leading, repetition, nonharmonic tones, the origins of tonal harmony, the grammar of tonal harmony, modulation, and melody. These are flanked by two largely analytical chapters on rock harmony and Beethoven. Wide-ranging in scope, and with almost 700 musical examples from the Middle Ages to the present day, Tonality: An Owner''s Manual weaves philosophy, mathematics, statistics, and computational analysis into a new and truly twenty-first century theory of mu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTonality: An Owner's Manual is Dmitri Tymoczko's dazzling answer to the controversial quest for a transhistorical definition of tonality. By disentangling what composers do from what theorists say, Tymoczko presents a fascinating exposition of common compositional principles that animate Western music from Renaissance polyphony to jazz, rock, and contemporary triadic idioms. * Suzannah Clark, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eDmitri Tymoczko is an original musical thinker who combines mathematical skills and good musicianship in search of universal principles of pitch organization. Tonality: An Owner's Manual continues this quest in proposing a geometrical, hierarchical voice-leading theory that has applications across diverse musical styles. It is written with admirable clarity. * Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements  1. Implicit musical knowledge 1. Gesualdo's trick 2. The quadruple hierarchy 3. Philosophy 4. Statistics 5. Schema 6. Outline  Prelude: transposition along a collection 2. Rock logic 1. A melodic principle 2. A harmonic principle 3. A first chord-loop family 4. Two more families 5. Shepard-tone passacaglias 6. Minor triads and other trichords 7. A fourth family 8. Other modalities 9. Function and retrofunction 10. Continuity or reinvention?  Prelude: the Tinctoris transform 3. Line and configuration 1. The imperfect system 2. Voice exchanges 3. Other intervals 4. The circle of diatonic triads 5. Voice exchanges and multiple chord types 6. Four-voice triadic counterpoint 7. Counterpoint within the chord 8. Seventh chords 9. Harmony and counterpoint  Prelude: sequence and function 4. Repetition 1. Repetition reimagined 2. Repeating contrapuntal patterns 3. The geometry of two-voice sequences 4. Three voices and the circle of triads 5. Three voices arranged 2+1  6. Four voices 7. Contrary-motion sequences 8. Melodic sequences and near sequences 9. Near sequences 10. Sequences as reductional targets  Prelude: three varieties of analytical reduction 5. Nonharmonic tones 1. The first practice and the SNAP system 2. Schoenberg's critique 3. Monteverdi's \"Ohimè\" 4. The standardized second practice 5. A loophole 6. After nonharmonicity  Prelude: functional and scale-degree analysis 6. The origins of functional harmony 1. The logical structure of protofunctionality 2. Similarities and differences 3. Origin and meaning 4. Harmony and polyphony 5. The Pope Marcellus Kyrie 6. A broader perspective 7. \"I Cannot Follow\"  Prelude: could the Martians understand our music? 7. Functional progressions 1. A theory of harmonic cycles 2. A more principled view 3. Rameau and Bach 4. Functional melody, functional harmony 5. Fauxbourdon and linear idioms 6. Sequences 7. Bach the dualist  Prelude: chromatic or diatonic? 8. Modulation 1. Two models of key distance 2. Enharmonicism and loops in scale space 3. Minor keys 4. Modulatory schemas 5. Up and down the ladder 6. Modal homogenization and scalar voice leading 7. Generalized set theory  Prelude: hearing and hearing-as 9. Melodic strategies 1. Strategy and reduction 2. Two models of the phrase 3. Chopin and the Prime Directive 4. An expanded vocabulary of melodic templates 5. Simple harmonic hierarchy 6. The four-part phrase 7. Grouping, melody, harmony 8. Beyond the phrase: hierarchy at the level of the piece  Prelude: why Beethoven? 10. Beethoven theorist 1. Meet the Ludwig 2. From schema to flow 3. The Tempest 4. The Fifth Symphony 5. The \"Pastorale\" sonata, op. 28 6. Schubert's Quartettsatz 7. The prelude to Lohengrin  11. Conclusion  12. Appendix 1: Fundamentals  13. Appendix 2: Deriving the spiral diagrams  14. Appendix 3: From sequence to transformation  15. Appendix 4: Music theory and corpus analysis  Terms and Abbreviations  Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732653289815,"sku":"9780197577103","price":31.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197577103.jpg?v=1719997810","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tonality-9780197577103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}