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Roots of the Classical identifies and traces to their sources the patterns that make Western classical music unique, setting out the fundamental laws of melody and harmony, and sketching the development of tonality between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The author then focuses on the years 1770-1910, treating the Western music of this period - folk, popular, and classical - as a single, organically developing, interconnected unit in which the popular idiom was constantly feeding into 'serious' music, showing how the same patterns underlay music of all kinds.

Table of Contents:
I. The Melodic Foundations 1: The subtle mathematics of music 2: The Ramellian paradigm 3: The children's chant 4: The pentatonic scale II. The Harmonic Revolution 5: Primitive harmony 6: The discovery of tonality 7: Rivals to tonality 8: Dissonance and discord 9: The evolution of tonality III. The Melodic Counter-Revolution 10: The rude, the vulgar, and the polite 11: The debt to the East The Phrygian Fringe Drones and ostinatos Outline, refrain, and sequence Modes and scales 12: The dances of central Europe The polka family The waltz 13: The nineteenth-century vernacular 14: Romanticism Romantic nationalism The symphonic tradition Wagner and the vernacular 15: Modernism 16: The popular style The late vernacular The blues and early jazz

About the Author :
Peter Van der Merwe spent two years at the South African College of Music in Cape Town but is largely self-taught. He is now working as a qualified librarian. He published his first book, 'Origins of the Popular Style' with OUP in 1989.

Review :
'...a marvellously stimulating new book.' Martin Kettle, The Guardian ...looks beyond the traditional sources, examining the importance of styles from alternative repertoires such as children's song and dances of Central Europe. The Strengths of this book are the breadth of Van de Merwe's examples and his perspective, which is relatively free of the value judgements placed on the selected repertoires. Choice ...a marvellously stimulating and important book: a masterpiece of canny observation, a miracle of effective organization, a model of colourful, pungent writing, and an ear-opener that should be read and pondered by all scholars and musicians who deal with music of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in any and all of it genres. Music and Letters, Vol. 88, No. 1


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198166474
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Popular Origins of Western Music
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198166478
  • Publisher Date: 09 Dec 2004
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 576
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 986 gr


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