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Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music: Nature and Nationalism book cover

1st Edition

Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music Nature and Nationalism

By Benedict Taylor Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life. Grieg was enchanted by what he styled the ’dreamworld’ of harmony, a magical realm whose principles the composer felt remained a mystery even to himself, and he was not alone, in that the complex nature of late-Romantic harmony around... Read more


List of Figures



List of Musical Examples



Acknowledgements





Introduction: Enticements





1 Extending Tonality: Klang, Added-Note Harmonies, and the Emancipation of Sonority





2 Modality and Scalar-Modulation





3 Systematisation:



Chromaticism, Interval Cycles and Linear Progressions





Conclusion: Nature and Nationalism





Bibliography



Index of Grieg’s Works Cited



General Index

Biography

Benedict Taylor is Chancellor’s Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (Cambridge, 2011) and The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era, forthcoming from Oxford in 2015.

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