Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music
- Author: Merwe, Peter van der
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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
- 12 The Dances of Central Europe
- 13 The Nineteenth-Century Vernacular
- 14 Romanticism
- 15 Modernism
- 16 The Popular Style
- Epilogue
