Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality

by Kenneth Smith and Kenneth M. Smith

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190923423
• ISBN13: 9780190923426
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.7"