How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire?
Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer
these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth-
century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically
complex. _Desire in Chromatic Harmony_ yields a new theory of how
chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys
through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in
Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this
mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring
philosophically engaged European and American composers such as
Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and
Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book
drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic
and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in
Suk's _asrael_ Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's
_elektra_; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's _Song of the
Night_ to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's _The
Tender Land_, _Desire in Chromatic Harmony_ cuts a path through the
dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological
make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.
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ISBN
9780190923440
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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