From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. Through deep engagement with the corpus of Western music theory, author Michael R. Dodds presents a model to clarify the factors of this complex shift.

Table des matières

• Epigraph


• Acknowledgments


• List of Figures


• List of Musical Examples


• List of Tables


• Preface


• Chapter 1: A Model for Change in Modal Theory and Practice


• Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Modal Systems


• Chapter 3: Making Sense of Early Modern Modal Theory


• Chapter 4: The Tuoni in Italian Renaissance Theory


• Chapter 5: The Baroque Church Tones in Western European Theory


• Chapter 6: Two Modes


• Chapter 7: Organizing Schemes for the Two Modes


• Chapter 8: Changing Concepts of Tonal Space


• Chapter 9: Musical Circles and Labyrinths


• Bibliography


• Name Index


• General Index

A propos de l'auteur

Michael R. Dodds is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His callings as scholar, artist, and teacher are united by a life-long fascination with the conceptualization of tonal structures, especially in the contexts of sacred music. The story of Dodds as an artist is the subject of the 2023 documentary Blessed Unrest: A Composer's Awakening.

Résumé

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. Through deep engagement with the corpus of Western music theory, author Michael R. Dodds presents a model to clarify the factors of this complex shift.

Texte suppl.

This text is highly accessible to a wide range of musical audiences, who are curious about the history, development and reasoning behind the system of tonality we employ today.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: DODDS, Michael R. Dodds, Michael R. (Associate Professor Dodds
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 22.11.2023
• EAN: 9780199338153
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933815-3
• Pages: 512
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition, Theory of music & musicology, baroque, Renaissance style, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Medieval style, Western "classical" music