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Roots of the Classical The Popular Origins of Western Music

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ISBN-10: 0198166478

ISBN-13: 9780198166474

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter Van der Merwe

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Roots of the Classical identifies and traces to their source 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.
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Book details

List price: $425.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

List of Figures
List of Tables
A Note on Terminology and Notation
A Note on the Musical Examples
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Melodic Foundations
The Subtle Mathematics of Music
The Ramellian Paradigm
The Children's Chant
The Pentatonic Scale
The Harmonic Revolution
Primitive Harmony
The Discovery of Tonality
Rivals to Tonality
Dissonance and Discord
The Evolution of Tonality
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
Epilogue
List of Musical Examples
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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