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Author(s): Jeremy Day-O’Connell
ISBN(s): 9781580466905, 1580466907
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 26.87 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1580462480

ISBN 13: 978-1580462488

Author: Jeremy Day-O’ Connell

A generously illustrated examination of pentatonic (“black-key scale”) techniques in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy offers the first comprehensive account of a widely recognized aspect of music history: the increasing use of pentatonic (“black-key scale”) techniques in nineteenth-century Western art-music. Pentatonicism in nineteenth-century music encompasses hundreds of instances, many of which predate by decades the more famous examples of Debussy and Dvorák. This book weaves together historical commentary with music theory and analysis in order to explain the sources and significance of an important, but hitherto only casually understood, phenomenon. The book introduces several distinct categories of pentatonicpractice — pastoral, primitive, exotic, religious, and coloristic — and examines pentatonicism in relationship to changes in the melodic and harmonic sensibility of the time. The text concludes with an additional appendix of over 400 examples, an unprecedented resource demonstrating the individual artistry with which virtually every major nineteenth-century composer (from Schubert, Chopin, and Berlioz to Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler) handled theseemingly “simple” materials of pentatonicism. Jeremy Day-O’Connell is assistant professor of music at Knox College.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

Defining Pentatonicism

Historical Context and Scope

Methodology and Analytical Approach

Pentatonicism in the 18th Century

Early European Encounters with Pentatonic Scales

Folk and Art Music Connections

Theoretical Discussions in the Classical Era

Romanticism and the Expansion of Pentatonic Techniques

Pentatonicism in Lieder and Romantic Piano Music

Exoticism and Nationalism in the 19th Century

The Role of the Pentatonic Scale in Pastoral and Religious Music

Theoretical Perspectives on Pentatonicism

The Scale and Its Structural Functions

Harmonic and Melodic Applications

Comparative Analysis with Other Modal Systems

Pentatonicism and Musical Signification

The Pastoral and the Exotic

Sacred and Mystical Associations

The Emotional and Psychological Effects of the Pentatonic Scale

Claude Debussy and the Pentatonic Tradition

Early Influences and Experimentation

Pentatonicism in His Piano Works

The Role of the Pentatonic Scale in Impressionist Orchestration

Beyond Debussy: Pentatonicism in the 20th Century

French Impressionists and Their Successors

Pentatonicism in Modernist and Contemporary Composition

The Influence on Jazz and Popular Music

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