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The contexts and its predilections. Music, change, and a dawning century ; In search of prophets ; Schoenberg's controlling assumptions -- Schoenberg as theorist. The tonal basis in nature's chord ; Scales, modes, and evolution ; The emancipation of dissonance ; Perserving music theory's trinity: scale, chord, and key -- Sorting out the issues. A new look at some old ideas ; The pitch-rhythm-harmony mix -- Putting together what belongs together. The harmonic series as pitch archetype ; Modal concepts, phrase vectors, and the harmonic frame -- The compounded error and its legacy. Alleged harbingers of the atonal ; The more things change, the more... ; The Schoenbergian legacy. |
