Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory (Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute) - Softcover

Christensen, Thomas; Gouk, Penelope; Geay, Gérard; McClary, Susan; Jans, Markus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9058675874 ISBN 13: 9789058675873

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute 6"We have developed a tremendous amount of what might best be referred to as journalistic knowledge concerning the ways that musicians of earlier periods thought about musical structures. Now that we have that knowledge, what might we do with it?"―Joel LesterThe often complex connections and intersections between modal and tonal idioms and contrapuntal and harmonic organization during the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque era are considered from various perspectives in Towards Tonality. Prominent musicians and scholars from a wide range of fields testify here to their personal understanding of this significant time of shifts in musical taste. This collection of essays is based on lectures presented during the conference "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music," organized by the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory in Ghent, Belgium.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Christensen is Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9058675874
• ISBN 13: 9789058675873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205