1st Edition

Return to Riemann Tonal Function and Chromatic Music

98 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

98 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

98 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung . First, in terms of music theory, it proposes a new theory of tonal function that returns to the theories of Hugo Riemann to rediscover a development of his thought that has been covered over by the recent project of neo-Riemannian theory. Second,... Read more

1. Riemannian Theory and the Problem of Chromatic Function  2. Waltraute’s Plaint: Riemannian Tonal Function and Dramatic Narrative  3. Two Nineteenth-Century Examples of Hexatonic-Diatonic Tonal Function  4. The Multiple Lives of Seventh Chords  5. ‘Here Time Becomes Space’: Schenkerising Riemann/Riemannising Schenker

Biography

J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Emeritus Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Event of Music History, Ideology in Britten’s Operas, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism, and Edward Elgar, Modernist.

Oliver Chandler is an Academic Professor at the Royal College of Music and stipendiary lecturer in music at Keble and Hertford Colleges, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983.