Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond

by Matthew Brown

A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.

A wide range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by its use of some form of what is generally called tonality: the tendency of music to focus melodically on some stable pitch or tonic and for its harmony to use functional triads. Yet few terms in music theory are more enigmatic than that seemingly simple word tonality.
Matthew Brown's Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461603
• ISBN13: 9781580461603
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"