Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Sicle Tonality Smith Kenneth M.
Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Sicle Tonality Smith Kenneth M. How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to…
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Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Sicle Tonality Smith Kenneth M.
How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? 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. Where does this desire come from?
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. 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. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant