Tonality – or the feeling of key in music – achieved crisp theoretical definition in the early 20th century, even as the musical avant-garde pronounced it obsolete. The notion of a general collapse or loss of tonality, ca. 1910, remains influential within music historiography, and yet the textbook narrative sits uneasily with a continued flourishing of tonal music throughout the past century. Tonality, from an early 21st-century perspective, never did fade from cultural attention; but it remains a prismatic formation, defined as much by ideological-cultural valences as by its role in technical understandings of musical practice. Tonality 1900–1950: Concept and Practice brings together new essays by 15 leading American and European scholars.
| ISBN | 978-3-515-10160-8 |
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| Media type | Book - Hardcover |
| Edition number | 1. |
| Copyright year | 2012 |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Length | 276 pages |
| Illustrations | 11 b/w figs., zahlr. Notenbeisp. |
| Size | 17.0 x 24.0 cm |
| Language | English |
