Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music

by Daniel Harrison

This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the tonal system did not simply die out with the dawn of twentieth century, but continued to supplement newer techniques as a compelling means of musical organization,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190244461
• ISBN13: 9780190244460
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"