ISBN10: 0195336674, ISBN13: 9780195336672, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Used Book
[Orlando, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0195336674, ISBN13: 9780195336672, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0195336674, ISBN13: 9780195336672, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval polyphony to contemporary rock. Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how these features recur throughout the history of Western music. In the process he sheds new light on an age-old question: what makes music sound good?A Geometry of Music provides an accessible introduction to Tymoczko's revolutionary geometrical approach to music theory. The book shows how to construct simple diagrams representing relationships among familiar chords and scales, giving readers the tools to translate between the musical and visual realms and revealing surprising degrees of structure in otherwise hard-to-understand pieces. Tymoczko uses this theoretical foundation to retell the history of Western music from the eleventh century to the present day. Arguing that traditional histories focus too narrowly on the "common practice" period from 1680-1850, ...
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