Tonality in Western Culture

by Richard Norton

This book initiates "the first critical appraisal of the whole of Western tonal consciousness, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to the latest popular song." While tonality has been unwittingly championed as the product of the bourgeois age in Europe and America from 1600 to 1900, Norton states, key-centered music is understood here merely to exhibit components of an encompassing sonic expressivity as durable as any language. The author analyzes...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003596
• ISBN13: 9780271003597
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.