Summary
Musicologists who work on repertories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often give their own account of pertinent principles of harmonic usage, because standard accounts may not do justice to varied practices that occur within the "tonal period" (from roughly 1690 to 1910). With respect to both theorists, Brover-Lubovsky recognizes not only point-bypoint correspondences between precept (theirs) and practice (Vivaldi's) but, more significantly, she compares the overall set of relationships between major and minor modes, and the kinds of harmonic progressions that can be associated predominantly with one mode, one key, and one mood (as described in an underlying text).
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Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi
Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi. By Bella Brover-Lubovsky. Blooming ton: Indiana University Press, 2008. [xix, 357 p. ISBN 9780253351296. $44.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, indexes.
Musicologists who work on repertories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often give their own account of pertinent principles of harmonic usage, because standard accounts may not do justice to varied practices that occur within the "tonal period" (from roughly 1690 to 1910). Yet it is tacitly acknowledged that the...See the full content of this document
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