Harmonic tonality in the music theories of Jérôme-Joseph Momigny, 1762-1842 / Glenn G. Caldwell.

Author/creator Caldwell, Glenn Gerald, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoLewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2001.
Descriptioniii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 79
Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 79. ^A231525
Contents Momigny: a brief biography -- Momigny's theoretical writings -- A review of research on Momigny -- Chapter I. The grand musical system -- The diatonic genus -- The chromatic and enharmonic genera -- The minor mode -- Tonal hierarchy -- Chapter II. Diatonic harmony -- Chord structures -- The hierarchy of diatonic chords -- Key and harmonic cadences -- On the Basse fondamentale -- The rules of voice leading -- Nonchord tones -- Chapter III. Chromatic harmony -- Alteration of diatonic dyads and triads -- Alteration of diatonic seventh chords -- The resolution of diatonic and secondary dominant chords -- Borrowed chords -- The resolution of the altered fifth chord -- The resolution of common-tone diminished seventh chords -- The resolution of augmented-sixth and Neapolitan sixth chords -- Momigny's analysis of altered chords in excerpts from two musical works -- Chapter IV. Modulation -- Momigny's definitions -- Transitions -- Momigny's analysis of modulations in musical works -- Chapter V. Momigny's broader view of tonality -- On the relationship of keys -- The "Morceau" and the application of unity and variety -- Chapter VI. Perspectives -- Source writings by Momigny -- Secondary literature on Momigny.
Abstract This book contributes to understanding Momigny's thought process and traces in detail his hierarchies of the tonal strengths of diatonic and chromatic scale degrees, of chords withing keys, and of keys within a greater key system.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-168) and index.
LCCN 2001030001
ISBN0773474331

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