Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music

Contents

• I. The Melodic Foundations
• 1 The subtle mathematics of music
• 2 The Ramellian paradigm
• 3 The children's chant
• 4 The pentatonic scale
• II. The Harmonic Revolution
• 5 Primitive harmony
• 6 The discovery of tonality
• 7 Rivals to tonality
• 8 Dissonance and discord
• 9 The evolution of tonality
• III. The Melodic Counter-Revolution
• 10 The rude, the vulgar, and the polite
• 11 The debt to the East
• The Phrygian Fringe
• Drones and ostinatos
• Outline, refrain, and sequence
• Modes and scales
• 12 The dances of central Europe
• The polka family
• The waltz
• 13 The nineteenth-century vernacular
• 14 Romanticism
• Romantic nationalism
• The symphonic tradition
• Wagner and the vernacular
• 15 Modernism
• 16 The popular style
• The late vernacular
• The blues and early jazz