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Tonal Consciousness and the Medieval West

by Peter M. Krakauer , Fiona McAlpine
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783039115068
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
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  • Pages: 480
  • Original Price: GBP 100.15
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Instruction & Study / Theory

Tonal consciousness, in the sense of a clear intuition about which note or chord a piece of music will finish on, is as much a part of our everyday experience of music as it is of contemporary music theory. This book asks to what extent such tonal consciousness might have operated in the minds of musicians of the Middle Ages, given the different tone world found in the modes of Gregorian chant, in troubadour and trouvère music, in Minnesang and in the early polyphony based upon chant. The author's approach is analytical, focusing on modality and balancing up-to-date concepts and methods of music analysis with those insights into their own compositional needs and processes that the people of the Middle Ages provided themselves through their writings about music. The book examines a range of both music sources and theoretical sources from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. This is a ground-breaking contribution both to the study of medieval music and to music analysis.

The Author: Fiona McAlpine, a graduate of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, has taught at the School of Music at the University of Auckland since 1980. She lectures on medieval music and is also responsible for the analysis programme within the School. She is a past president of the New Zealand Musicological Society and a current member of the International Musicological Society Study Group Cantus Planus.

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