Treatise on Harmony (Dover Books on Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486224619 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-10 |
| Language | : | French |
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Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)
Working from the principles developed in Books One and Two, Book Three treats the practical rules of composition, including such topics as harmonic modulation and chord progressions. In addition, two pages from a unique copy of the first issue of the first edition are given in facsimile. Even today the theories of Rameau remain the basis for the study of harmony.Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie is divided into four books, the first of which presents the mathematical basis from which Rameau sought to derive his theories. Corrections added by Rameau in a supplement are included in the text, and all the musical examples have been reset in modern musical notation. Book Two may be considered the most important section of the Traité; in it Rameau generates his entire harmonic system from fundamental principles, explaining intervals, chords, and modes — everything, in fact, essential to musical composition in tonal style. The Traité de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Book Four concerns the practical art of accompaniment on harpsichord or organ, including the realization of a figured bass. The translator's introduction discusses the history of the work, Rameau's mathematics, and his place in the history of music theory.. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received bu
"An especially imporant work in the history of music theory" according to Craig Matteson. The importance of this work in the history of music would be hard to overestimate. While later music theorists and analysts, such as Schenker, find this emphasis on chords to be destructive to the horizontal considerations that make a great work hold together, this work has influence so many people that even those that do not even know his name but talk about root position chords and their inversions are invoking his concepts without realizing the source.No, this is not . A Customer said recommended. Jean-Phillipe Rameau is, of course, the most esteemed French composer of the late Baroque period (comparable in stature only to J.S. Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel). He is also quite possibly the most influential music theorist ever to have lived. His theory of root progression profoundly altered Western-European-derived music, for the better and for the worse (as his contemporary detractors warned it would--by greatly simplifying the study of harmony such that it could be ea. "A Tonal Harmony Classic" according to H. R. Barrionuevo. This treatise constitutes a touchstone document in the theory of European art music, especially, that from ca. 1600-1850. It is a great tool, not only for historians of the music and music theory of the 17th- and 18th- centuries, but also, for historians of science interested in acoustics. Definite recommendation!