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Dmitri Tymoczko
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“I will argue that five features are present in a wide range of genres, Western and non-Western, past and present, and that they jointly contribute to a sense of tonality: 1. Conjunct melodic motion. Melodies tend to move by short distances from note to note. 2. Acoustic consonance. Consonant harmonies are preferred to dissonant harmonies, and tend to be used at points of musical stability. 3. Harmonic consistency. The harmonies in a passage of music, whatever they may be, tend to be structurally similar to one another. 4. Limited macroharmony. I use the term “macroharmony” to refer to the total collection of notes heard over moderate spans of musical time. Tonal music tends to use relatively small”
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable, at least in part, to features of our biological inheritance.10”
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
“The goal of this book is to understand tonality afresh—to provide some new theoretical tools for thinking about tonal coherence, and to illuminate some of the hidden roads connecting modern tonality to that of the past. My aim is to retell the history of Western music so that twentieth-century tonality appears not as an”
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
― A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice
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