1st Edition

Musics with and after Tonality Mining the Gap

Edited By Paul Fleet Copyright 2022
268 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial. They fall between these labels as they are metatonal, being both with and after tonality, in their reconstruction of external codes and gestures of Common Practice music in new and idiosyncratic ways.  The composers and works considered  are approached from... Read more

Introduction

1. Mining the Gap of Musics with and after Tonality
Paul Fleet (Newcastle University, UK)

2. Mining the Gap: What Gap?
Alistair Hinton (Composer and founder of the Sorabji Archive, UK)

3. Savage Minds in British Early-Twentieth Century Music

Annika Forkert (Royal Northern College of Music, UK)

4. Space and Structure in Metatonal Musics
Paul Fleet (Newcastle University, UK)


5. Carl Nielsen’s Musical Vitalism
Christopher Tarrant (Newcastle University, UK)


6. ‘The cautious experiments of M. K. Čiurlionis (1875-1911): tonalities and realisms in his art and music’
George Kennaway (Performer and Conductor, UK)


7. J.S. Bach and Metatonality in the Early Piano Pieces of Ferruccio Busoni
Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)


8. Ferrruccio Busoni - mirror and enigma: transcendence and the later piano works

Fred Scott (City, University of London, UK) 

9. Diatonic refraction through metatonal spaces
Kenneth Smith (University of Liverpool, UK)

10. Transformed Desire: Scriabin’s Transition Away from Functional Tonality
Jeff Yunek (Kennesaw State University, USA)


11. Musicology, Mediation, Metatonality: Rethinking the Music of Rebecca Clarke and Erwin Schulhoff
Chris Dromey (Middlesex University, UK)

 

Biography

Paul Fleet is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, UK with research specialty in Authentic Music Theory. He is also a QAA Subject Expert and Reviewer, HEA-qualified External Examiner, Senior Fellow of the HEA all whilst remaining a music theory lecturer, keynote popular-music education speaker, and a published author.