Audacious euphony [[electronic resource] ] : chromaticism and the consonant triad's second nature / / Richard Cohn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813890703321
• Autore: Cohn Richard Lawrence <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-42289-1; 9786613422897; 0-19-977321-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Oxford studies in music theory
• Disciplina: 781.2/5
• Soggetti: Harmony; Triads (Music)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction; About the Companion Web Site; 1 Mapping the Triadic Universe; Three Ways to Calculate Triadic Distance; Triads in Chromatic Space; Remarks on Syntax and Maps; 2 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; 3 Reciprocity; The Historical Emergence of Augmented TriadsConsonance/Dissonance Reciprocity; Two Early-Century Examples: Beethoven and Schubert; Three Late-Century Examples: Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré; Reciprocity in Weitzmann's Der Ubermässige Dreiklang; 4 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; 5 A Unified Model of Triadic Voice-Leading Space; 8 Syntactic Interaction and the Convertible TonnetzSome Previous Proposals; The Diatonic Tonnetz; Horizontal Extensions; Vertical Extensions; The Convertible Tonnetz; Two Analytical Vignettes: Wagner ; and Brahms; 9 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; A; B; C; D; G; H; I; L; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance 'Audacious Euphony' advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music.