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Desire in Chromatic Harmony - Kenneth M. Smith

Desire in Chromatic Harmony

A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-775220-3 (ISBN)
CHF 48,90 inkl. MwSt
In Desire in Chromatic Harmony, Kenneth Smith reveals how composers used chromatic and dissonant chord progressions to mirror the psychological tension and complexity found in the work of psychoanalytic writers.
How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.

Kenneth M. Smith is Professor of Music Theory at University of Liverpool and serves as Vice President of the Society for Music Analysis. He is the author of Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis.

Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1: A Linguistic Theory of Chromatic Harmonic Substitution and Progression in the Diatonic Unconscious
Chapter 2: Romantic Provenance
Chapter 3: Transcending Root Motion: Productive Death Drives and Cybernetic Cycles in Charles Ives & Aaron Copland
Chapter 4: Karol Szymanowski's Dominant Drive Model and the Excess of the Cycle
Chapter 5: Tragedy and the Gaze of the Living Dead: Functional Harmonic Rotation in Strauss's Elektra
Chapter 6: The Thanatonic and the Hexatonic: Repetition, Mourning, and "Mother" in Suk's Asrael
Chapter 7: When Octatonic and Hexatonic Collide: Skryabin's Accelerationist Last Piano Sonata
Epilogue: The Way Forwards (and Backwards)

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Zusatzinfo 227 figures
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 235 x 157 mm
Gewicht 517 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10 0-19-775220-9 / 0197752209
ISBN-13 978-0-19-775220-3 / 9780197752203
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