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Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts of harmony and tonality, reviewing in the process the important theories of Rameau, Sechter, Ftis, Riemann, and Schenker. He contrasts the familiar premises of chordal composition with the lesser known precepts of intervallic composition, the basis for polyphonic music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Numerous quotations from theoretical treatises document how early music was driven forward not by progressions of chords but by simple progressions of intervals.Exactly when did composers transform intervallic composition into chordal composition? Modality into tonality? Dahlhaus provides extensive analyses of motets by Josquin, frottole by Cara and Tromboncino, and madrigals by Monteverdi to demonstrate how, and to what degree, such questions can be answered. In his bold speculations, in his magisterial summaries, in his command of eight centuries of music and writings on music, and in his deep understanding of European history and culture, Carl Dahlhaus sets a standard that will seldom be equalled.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Hardcover:
9780691637044 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $140.00
9780691091358 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $72.50
Paperback:
9780691608624 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over.
Hardcover:
9780945193166 | Pendragon Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $80.00
Hardcover:
9780945193043 | Pendragon Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music : Essence (Aesthetics in Music Series)
Paperback:
9780521428996, titled "Richard Wagner's Music Dramas" | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $44.99
A survey of the most popular period in music history details many of the socio-historical influences on music of this period, the impact of Beethoven's death, and the rise of grand opera
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Hardcover:
9780520052918 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A survey of the most popular period in music history details many of the socio-historical influences on music of this period, the impact of Beethoven's death, and the rise of grand opera
Paperback:
9780520076440 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $36.95
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Hardcover:
9780226134864 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 1989, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9780226134871 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, August 13, 1991), cover price $23.00
Product Description: Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, combines interpretations of individual works that focus on issues of composition and musical history, with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800; an age that was not only a "classical" period in the history of the arts but also one in that aesthetics carved itself a place in the center of philosophical attention...read more
Hardcover:
9780198161486 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Many books have been written about Beethoven.
Hardcover:
9780918728685 | Pendragon Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $80.00
Product Description: Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms's and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and the true significance of musical nationalism...read more
Paperback:
9780520067486 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms's and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and the true significance of musical nationalism.
Product Description: This collection of essays examines the works of composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential and controversial composers of the twentieth century, in the context of the "New Music" that was the historical and cultural movement of his time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521337830 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This collection of essays examines the works of composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential and controversial composers of the twentieth century, in the context of the "New Music" that was the historical and cultural movement of his time.
Hardcover:
9780918728609 | Pendragon Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $80.00
Hardcover:
9780521261159 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 26, 1985), cover price $42.95
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9780521278416 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $44.99
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9780393300925 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | also contains What You Left Behind | About this edition: Describes the life of Richard Wagner, examines the development of his operas, and discusses his theories on drama and music
This book is the first thoroughgoing study in any language of the philosophy of music history. Drawing on competing philosophies of history throughout the ages, from the Enlightenment to the French structuralists, from the German idealist tradition to Russian formalism, the late Carl Dahlhaus applies the thoughts of these various schools to the specialist requirements of music history and assesses their advantages and shortcomings. Special attention is given to an appraisal of whether Marxist critiques are still viable and where they stand in need of rethinking. For this English edition, the author provided an extensive annotated bibliography. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521232814 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 1983), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This book is the first thoroughgoing study in any language of the philosophy of music history.
Paperback:
9780521298902 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $44.99
Hardcover:
9780918728203 | Pendragon Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: Examines the possibility of a reconciliation between a value-free analysis and a subjective aesthetic judgement.
Product Description: This book is an introduction to the esthetics of music. Aesthetics, which were of prime importance in thinking about music in the nineteenth century, are today sometimes suspected of being idle speculation. Yet judgments about music and every sort of musical activity are based on aesthetic presuppositions...read more
Hardcover:
9780521235082 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book is an introduction to the esthetics of music.
Paperback:
9780521280075 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This book is an introduction to the esthetics of music.
Paperback:
9783795717070 | Schott & Co Ltd, August 1, 1981, cover price $39.00
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