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Tonal Consciousness and the Medieval West

Tonal Consciousness and the Medieval West

McAlpine, Fiona
Krakauer, Peter M.

Paperback

Series: Varia Musicologica, Book 10

Christian MusicGeneral World HistoryMusic Theory

ISBN10: 3039115065
ISBN13: 9783039115068
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 22 2008
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tonal consciousness, in the sense of a clear intuition about which note or chord a piece of music will finish on, is as much a part of our everyday experience of music as it is of contemporary music theory. This book asks to what extent such tonal consciousness might have operated in the minds of musicians of the Middle Ages, given the different tone world found in the modes of Gregorian chant, in troubadour and trouvère music, in Minnesang and in the early polyphony based upon chant. The author's approach is analytical, focusing on modality and balancing up-to-date concepts and methods of music analysis with those insights into their own compositional needs and processes that the people of the Middle Ages provided themselves through their writings about music. The book examines a range of both music sources and theoretical sources from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. This is a ground-breaking contribution both to the study of medieval music and to music analysis.

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