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A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Second Edition - Hardcover

Steblin, Rita

 
9781580460415: A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Second Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1580460410 ISBN 13: 9781580460415
Publisher: University of Rochester Press, 2002

Synopsis

A fully updated edition of the leading reference work on musical key characteristics during the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. This is a revised second edition of Dr. Steblin's important work on key characteristics, first published in 1983 by UMI Research Press and re-issued by the University of Rochester Press in 1996. The revision has been limited to athorough correction and update of the material in the first edition, so as to not disrupt the content and organization, for which the book has been praised as a significant and noteworthy reference for both scholars and research students alike. The book discusses the extra-musical meanings associated with various musical keys by ancient Greek and medieval-renaissance theorists and in particular composers and writers on music in the Baroque, Classical,and early Romantic periods. Chapters focus on Mattheson's extensive key descriptions from 1713, the Rameau-Rousseau and Marpurg-Kirnberger controversies regarding unequal versus equal temperaments, and C.F.D. Schubart's influential list based on the sharp-flat [bright-dark] principle of key-distinctions. Rita Katherine Steblin is a world-renowned music scholar, living and working in Vienna.

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Rita Katherine Steblin is a world-renowned music scholar, living and working in Vienna.

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Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1580460410
ISBN 13 
9781580460415
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
424