A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

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Sign up to Shopping Made Easy\'s newsletter for the latest news & exclusive deals A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice Rating: Format: Hardcover, 450 pages Other Information: 363 musical examples, 98 halftones Published In: United States, 15December2010 Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how these features recur throughout the history of Western music. Tymoczko creates for the reader a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz. A Geometry of Music provides an accessible introduction to Tymoczko\'s revolutionary geometrical approach to music theory. The book shows how to construct simple diagrams representing the relationships among familiar chords and scales. This gives readers the tools to translate between the musical and visual realms, revealing surprising degrees of structure in otherwise hard-to-understand pieces. Tymoczko uses these theoretical ideas to retell the history of Western music from the eleventh century to the present day. Arguing that traditional histories focus too narrowly on the \"common practice\" period from 1680-1850, he proposes instead that Western music comprises an extended common practice stretching from the late middle ages to the present. Using analysis to make his argument clear, he discusses a host of familiar pieces by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and others. A Geometry of Music is accessible to a range of readers, from undergraduate music majors to scientists and mathematicians with an interest in music. Defining its terms along the way, it presupposes no special mathematical background and only a basic familiarity with Western music theory. The book also contains exercises designed to reinforce and extend readers\' understanding, along with a series of appendices that explore the technical details of this exciting new theory. Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: 25.4 x 18.29 x 3.3 centimeters Age Range: 0-1 years © Copyright 2017 - ShoppingMadeEasy2