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Tonality in western culture : a critical and historical perspective

Title
Tonality in western culture : a critical and historical perspective / Richard Norton.
Author
Norton, Richard, 1938-
Publication
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1984.

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Description
xi, 306 pages : music; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [295]-302.
Contents
The activity of tonal speculation -- The hypostatization of classic tonality -- The nature of tonal phenomena -- Retuning the music of the spheres -- The origins of polyphony reconsidered -- Medieval and Renaissance hearing -- The dialectic of tonic and dominant -- Tonality as expression -- Tonality and sonata form -- Tonality and the nineteenth century -- Atonality as negation.
ISBN
  • 0271003596
  • 9780271003597
LCCN
83043030
OCLC
  • ocm09894653
  • 9894653
  • SCSB-14701484
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library