Tonal Structures in Early Music

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Cristle Collins Judd
Taylor & Francis, 1998 - 402

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature.

The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.

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Analyzing Early Music
3
From Psalmody to Tonality
12
Preconditions for Analysis
15
Exploring Tonal Structure in French Polyphonic Song of
61
Internal and External Views of the Modes
87
Josquins Gospel Motets and ChantBased Tonality
109
Tonal Coherence and the Cycle of Thirds in Josquins
155
Concepts of Pitch in English Music Theory c 15601640
183
Concepts of Key in SeventeenthCentury English Keyboard Music
247
Harold Powers
275
Tonal Types and Modal Equivalence in Two Keyboard Cycles
341
Bibliography
373
Contributors
395
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