Hearing harmony : toward a tonal theory for the rock era /
Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Tracking pop.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas. The identification of these schemas, as well as the historical contextualization of many of them, allows for systematic exploration of the repertory's typical harmonic transformations (such as chord substitution) and harmonic ambiguities. Doll provides readers with a novel explanation of the assorted aural qualities of chords, and how certain harmonic effects result from the interaction of various melodic, rhythmic, textural, timbral, and extra-musical contexts, and how these interactions can determine whether a chordal riff is tonally centered or tonally ambiguous, whether it sounds aggressive or playful or sad, whether it seems to evoke an earlier song using a similar series of chords, whether it sounds conventional or unfamiliar. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : music. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472073528 0472073524 9780472053520 0472053523 9780472122882 |
| DOI: | 10.3998/mpub.3079295 |