Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music

Nature and Nationalism

Benedict Taylor

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English

Routledge
15 December 2016

Theory of music & musicology; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Keyboard instruments

Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs

The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life.

Grieg was enchanted by what he styled the ’dreamworld’ of harmony, a magical realm whose principles the composer felt remained a mystery even to himself, and he was not alone, in that the complex nature of late-Romantic harmony around 1900 has proved a keen source of debate up to the present day.

Grieg’s music forms a particularly profitable repertoire for focusing current debates about the nature of tonality and tonal harmony.

Departing from earlier approaches, this study is not simply an inventory of Griegian harmonic traits but seeks rather to ascertain the deeper principles at work governing their meaningful conjunction, how elements of Grieg’s harmonic grammar are utilised in creating an extended tonal syntax.

Building both on historical theories and more recent developments, Benedict Taylor develops new models for understanding the complexity of late-Romantic tonal practice as epitomised in Grieg’s music.

Such an investigation casts further valuable light on the twin issues of nature and nationalism long connected with the composer: the question of tonality as something natural or culturally constructed and larger historiographical claims concerning Grieg’s apparent position on the periphery of the Austro-German tradition.

By: Benedict Taylor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9781472456588
ISBN 10: 1472456580
Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 15 December 2016
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures List of Musical Examples Acknowledgements Introduction: Enticements 1 Extending Tonality: Klang, Added-Note Harmonies, and the Emancipation of Sonority 2 Modality and Scalar-Modulation 3 Systematisation: Chromaticism, Interval Cycles and Linear Progressions Conclusion: Nature and Nationalism Bibliography Index of Grieg’s Works Cited General Index

Benedict Taylor is Chancellor’s Fellow in the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (Cambridge, 2011) and The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era, forthcoming from Oxford in 2015.