Del i serien Music and the Early Modern Imagination

Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between traditional modal thinking and what would later be considered common-practice major-minor tonality, directly reflects the historical circumstances of the shifting attitude toward the conceptualization of tonal space so crucial to Western art music. Vivaldi is examined in a completely new context, allowing both his prosaic and idiosyncratic sides to emerge clearly. This book contributes to a better understanding of Vivaldi's individual style, while illuminating wider processes of stylistic development and the diffusion of artistic ideas in the 18th century.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-25
Mått156 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt785 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMusic and the Early Modern Imagination
Antal sidor384
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253351296

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ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsEditorial Conventions and Abbreviations IntroductionPart 1. Estro armonico1. Vivaldi's "Harmony" and the Paradox of Historical Recognition2. Theory of Tonal Organization in Eighteenth-Century ItalyPart 2. Key and Mode3. Tonality and Key Characteristics4. Modal Implications in Tonal Organization5. The Interaction of Major and Minor Modes6. Functioning of Tonality in Large-Scale CompositionPart 3. Harmony and Syntax7. Lament Bass8. Sequence9. Pedal Point10. CadencePart 4. Tonal Structure11. General Premises12. Functioning of Harmonic Degrees in Tonal Structure13. Tonal Structure and the Choice of Tonality14. Tonal Structure in Cyclic CompositionsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

[The] Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi has many strengths. It is rigorous, systematic, comprehensive, and original. . . . Brover-Lubovsky's study is based on the examination of almost all of Vivaldi's available works, currently numbered at 808. This includes substantial quantities of vocal music, some of it still unedited. In contrast to a widely held view that all of Vivaldi's music is written to one formula, she finds endless variety and nuance in his procedures.March 2010- Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford University)