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Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

Return to Riemann: Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

Harper-Scott, J. P. E.
Chandler, Oliver

Paperback

Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs

Classical MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1032025069
ISBN13: 9781032025063
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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

First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second, in terms of its philosophical approach, it reawakens the critical-theoretical examination of the relation between music and the late capitalist society that is sedimented in the musical materials themselves, and which the music, in turn, subjects to aesthetically embodied critique. The music, the theory, and the listeners and critics who respond to them are all radically reimagined.

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