A Treatise of Harmony

A Treatise of Harmony
Author: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1792
Genre: Chords (Music)
ISBN:

A Treatise on Harmony

A Treatise on Harmony
Author: John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Total Pages: 242
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9783487407319

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2004-12-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 052161709X

"Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.

Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony
Author: Robert W. Wason
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580465757

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.

Theory of Harmony

Theory of Harmony
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1999
Genre: Harmony
ISBN:

A New Treatise on Accompaniment

A New Treatise on Accompaniment
Author: Michel de Saint-Lambert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1991-05-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253345615

Saint Lambert's Nouveau traité de l'accompagnement de clavecin, de l'orgue, et des autres instruments of 1707 supplements his earlier harpsichord treatise, Les Principes du clavecin of 1702. The Nouveau traité is a method book specifically designed for the accompanist rather than the solo performer. It offers practical suggestions to help the accompanist play the correct harmony without having to read all the notated parts at the same time. Saint Lambert discusses accompanying from unfigured and partly figured basses, and his was one of the first attempts to codify bass progressions into specific formulas, for which he assigns appropriate harmonies. He describes possible departures from the usual rules of accompaniment and examines performance techniques used by "tasteful" accompanists in order to create not merely a correct but an artistic accompaniment. John Powell presents Saint Lambert's text in a readable English translation with musical examples in modern notation. He compares Saint Lambert's text in a readable English translation with musical examples in modern notation. He compares Saint Lambert's concepts of realization with those of contemporaneous sources and traces the influence of this treatise on later authors.

ENYA

ENYA
Author: Chilly Gonzales
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1912722879

Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.