Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature

by Richard Cohn

Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the two repertories under a single mode of representation. Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019977269X
• ISBN13: 9780199772698
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 6.4"