A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler - Image 1

£52.43

Routledge A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler

Name: A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler
Brand: Routledge
Price: 52.43 GBP
Availability: InStock

Sacred & Religious Music

Price History & Forecast

Last 33 days • 33 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 33 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £52 (33 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £52 - £52

Price levels: 1 different prices over 33 days

Description

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. Here, Dr Mark Ellis presents a series of musical examples illustrating the 'evolution' of the augmented sixth and the changing contexts in which it can be found. Surprisingly, the sonority emerged from one of the last remnants of modal counterpoint to survive into the tonal era: the Phrygian Cadence. In the Baroque period, the 'terrible dissonance' was nearly always associated with negative textual imagery. Charpentier described the augmented sixth as 'poignantly expressive'. J. S. Bach considered an occurrence of the chord in one of his forebear's motets 'remarkably bold'. During Bach's composing lifetime, the augmented sixth evolved from a relatively rare chromaticism to an almost commonplace element within the tonal spectrum; the chord reflects particular chronological and stylistic strata in his music. Theorists began cautiously to accept the chord, but its inversional possibilities proved particularly contentious, as commentaries by writers as diverse as Muffat, Marpurg and Rousseau reveal. During the eighteenth century, the augmented sixth became increasingly significant in instrumental repertoires - it was perhaps Vivaldi who first liberated the chord from its negative textual associations. By the later eighteenth century, the chord began to function almost as a 'signpost' to indicate important structural boundaries within sonata form. The chord did not, however, entirely lose its darker undertone: it signifies, for example, the theme of revenge in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Romantic composers uncovered far-reaching tonal ambiguities inherent in the augmented sixth. Chopin's Nocturnes often seem beguilingly simple, but the surface tranquillity masks the composer's strikingly original harmonic experiments. Wagner's much-analyzed 'Tristan Chord' resolves (according to some theorists) on an augmented sixth. In Tristan und Isolde, the chord's mercurial character - its tonal ambivalence - symbolizes the 'distortion of reality' induced by the Magic Potion. As Schoenberg wrote, the chord of the augmented sixth stands 'on the fringes of tonality'. The book concludes with a discussion of the role of the chord in the decay of the tonal system, and its 'afterlife' in the post-tonal era. This book will appeal to music analysts by providing a chronological framework for further stylistic and harmonic analysis. To ensure its accessibility in graduate classes, the author includes a straightforward introduction to the augmented sixth and its theoretical background.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1138250937
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Sacred & Religious Music
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 September 2016
Listed Since: 24 August 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge A Chord in Time: The Evolution of the Augmented Sixth from Monteverdi to Mahler

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata

August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music (Eastman Studies in Music)

Routledge - Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process

Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A New Theory of Tonality

Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

Pitch Perfect: A Theory and Practice of Choral Intonation

Melody, Harmony, Tonality: A Book for Connoisseurs and Amateurs

Routledge - Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era

Routledge - Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Melody, Harmony, Tonality: An Introduction

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (Landmarks in Music Since 1950)

The Art of Reharmonization: Advanced Techniques for Modern Harmony using Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

Aural Awareness: Principles and Practice

Absolute Music: The History of an Idea

Divining the Oracle – Monteverdi′s Seconda Prattica

Routledge - Jumping to Conclusions: Music Cadence Book

Routledge - Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach (Routledge Music Companions)

Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti

Consort Suites and Dance Music - Routledge Music History

Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy

The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord (Cambridge Companions to Music)

Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse