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Structural Functions of Harmony

By Arnold Schoenberg; Leonard Stein

Book information

Publisher
London, Benn
Year
1990
ISBN
0510359108, 9780510359102, 0571130003, 9780571130009
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6424043 bytes)
Edition
2nd (revised) ed
Pages
217\217
DPI
600
Time added
2012-12-29 17:00:00

Description

First published in 1948, this is Schoenberg's final theoretical work. It is the last of a series of basic texts which Schoenberg compiled for his composition students at the University of California. The opening chapters are a resume of the basic principles of the early "Theory of Harmony". The subsequent chapters demonstrate the concept of 'monotonality'. Using the music of composers from Bach to Beethoven to Schoenberg himself, Schoenberg analyses modulations between keys not in relation to each other, but as shifts to different 'regions' of the tonic, the central tonality. "Structural Functions of Harmony" provides a key to the development of musical structure during the last two hundred and fifty years

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