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Audacious Euphony Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature

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ISBN-10: 019977269X

ISBN-13: 9780199772698

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard Cohn

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Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the two repertories under a single mode of representation. Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic impulse. In Audacious Euphony, author Richard Cohn takes both of these views to task, arguing that romantic harmony operates under syntactic principles distinct from those that underlie classical tonality, but no less susceptible to…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/23/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.33" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Introduction
About the Companion Web Site
Mapping the Triadic Universe
Three Ways to Calculate Triadic Distance
Triads in Chromatic Space
Remarks on Syntax and Maps
Hexatonic Cycles
A Minimal-Work Model of the Triadic Universe
The Hexatonic Trance
Contrary Motion and Balance
Hexatonic Progressions, Tonnetz Representations, and Triadic Transformations
Near Evenness, Minimal Voice Leading, and the Central Role of Augmented Triads
Remarks on Dualism
Triadic Structure Generates Pan-Triadic Syntax
Triads Are Homophonous Diamorphs
Reciprocity
The Historical Emergence of Augmented Triads
Consonance/Dissonance Reciprocity
Two Early-Century Examples: Beethoven and Schubert
Three Late-Century Examples: Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Faur�
Reciprocity in Weitzmann's Der Uberm�ssige Dreiklang
Weitzmann Regions
The Structure of a Weitzmann Region
Weitzmann Transformations and N/R Cycles
Remarks on the Tonnetz
Historical Origins of Weitzmann Regions
The Double-Agent Complex
Expanded N/R Chains
Weitzmann Regions without Sequences: Wagner and Strauss
A Unified Model of Triadic Voice-Leading Space
How Hexatonic and Weitzmann Regions Interact
Chromatic Sequences
Transformational Substitutions
Voice-Leading Zones
Remarks on Disjunction and Entropy
Navigating the Triadic Universe: Three Compositional Scripts
Neighborhoods and Pitch Retention Loops
Departure → Return Scripts
Continuous Upshifts
Dissonance
Four Eighteenth-Century Approaches to Dissonance
Reduction to a Triadic Subset
Hexatonic Poles in Parsifal
Vie Tristan Genus as Nearly Even Tetrachord
Circumnavigating the Tristan-Genus Universe
Scriabin's Mystic Species and Generalized Weitzmann Regions
Syntactic Interaction and the Convertible Tonnetz
Some Previous Proposals
The Diatonic Tonnetz
Horizontal Extensions
Vertical Extensions
The Convertible Tonnetz
Two Analytical Vignettes: Wagner and Brahms
Double Syntax and the Soft Revolution
A Summary Example from Schubert
Double Syntax and Its Skeptics
Code Switching and Double Determination
Cognitive Opacity
The Soft Revolution
On Musical Overdetermination
Glossary
Bibliography
Index