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Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality
By (Author) Carl Dahlhaus
Translated by Robert O. Gjerdingen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Music reviews and criticism
781.25
Hardback
406
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
Carl Dahlhaus was without doubt the premier musicologist of the postwar generation, a giant whose recent death was mourned the world over. Translated here for the first time, this fundamental work on the development of tonality shows his complete mastery of the theory of harmony. In it Dahlhaus explains the modern concepts of harmony and tonality,