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Title

Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie : an English-language translation of the François-Joseph Fétis history of harmony / translated, annotated, edited and with an introduction by Mary I. Arlin.

Author

Fétis, François-Joseph, 1784-1871.

Publication

Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Arlin, Mary I., 1939-

Description

xlv, 203 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Harmonologia series ; no. 7

Uniform Title

• Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie. English
• Harmonologia series ; no. 7.

Alternative Title

Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie.

Subject

Harmony > History

Note

• Translation of a work originally published in installments in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris, 1840.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-195) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Francois-Joseph Fetis -- I. An Outline of the History of Harmony Considered as Art and as Science - The Creation of a Harmonic System -- II. The Results of the Creation of a Harmonic System -- III. The Nineteenth Century - The Development of the Art - A Complete and Definitive Formation of the Theory of Harmony -- Appendix A: A Note in Reply to That of Mr. Fetis / F.A. Gevaert -- Appendix B: Musical Examples. 1. de la Halle. Rondeau No. 15, "Tant con je vivrai." Measures 9-11. 2. l'Escurel. "A vous, douce debonnaire." Measures 1-2, 15-16, 6. 3. Landini. "Non, avra me' pieta." Measures 2-4. 4. Dufay. Missa l'Homme Arme. "Kyrie." (Trans. R. G. Kiesewetter).

ISBN

0945193513 :

LCCN

94010964

OCLC

• 30154671
• ocm30154671

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries