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Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music
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Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music

by Edward E. Lowinsky, Igor Stravinsky. 101 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edward E. Lowinsky, Igor Stravinsky

Publisher:

   University of California Press

Place of Publication:

  Berkeley, CA  

Publication Year:

  1961
Subjects:   Music--Theory--16th-17th Centuries, Tonality
Table of contents
Contents
Introduction 1
I Frottola and Villancico 3
II From Dunstable to Josquin and Palestrina 15
III The Theorist's View 33
IV Floating Tonality and Atonality in Music 38
V Consolidation of Tonality in Balletto and Lute Ayre 51
VI Tonality in Dance Music 62
VII Tonality and Statistics 72
Conclusion 75
Notes 79
Addendum 95
Index 97
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