Chromaticism and the Question of Tonality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23619811
AutoresDavid Kopp (Boston University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Páginas400-416
Fecha de publicación2012-09-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaThe Oxford handbook of neo-Riemannian music theories (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195321333.013.0014
OpenAlexW2624476339
ISBN9780195321333
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas20

This article examines the role of key and function as a component of Riemann's relational harmonic system. It is argued in this article that while the neo-Riemannian abstraction of Riemann's Harmonieschritte offer certain insights into the nature of chromatic relations in the nineteenth-century music, it has also resulted in a view of harmonic relations uncomfortably divorced and separated from the tonal and functional contexts in which they were conceived. In addition to examining the role of key and function as component of Riemann's relational harmonic system, and chromaticism, the article also suggests how neo-Riemannian analysis can benefit by reconnecting Riemannian harmonic relations to the functional tonal contexts in which they arose, illustrating the recovered and renewed nineteenth-century perspective with analyses of music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Wolf.

Abstraction · Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Geometry · Harmonic · Key (lock) · Literature · Musical · Perspective (graphical) · Physics · Pure mathematics · Riemann hypothesis · Sociology · Tonality · Computer Science · Mathematics · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy