Glancing through that textbook, I was reminded of a problem I’d often had to confront when writing the original encyclopedia articles: how to talk about common tonal practices that don’t conform to the sort of tonal theory taught in many seats of musical learning. Skimming through its pages I realised that, like equivalents in other languages, it dealt only with certain tonal elements of euroclassical music and that it paid particular attention to conventional notions of harmony within that tradition. ‘Look’, he said, ‘this is all my students have to go by’. The first was when Franco showed me an Italian music theory textbook. I was slow to respond because I didn’t then see how repackaging that work could have much positive impact on music studies. It was in 2005 or 2006 that Franco Fabbri asked me to produce a book based on some encyclopedia articles I’d written between 19. TO KNOW WHY YOU'VE ENDED UP HERE, CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS LINE TO VIEW THIS FILE CORRECTLY, CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS LINE It contains just the basic text: no illustrations, no music examples, no footnotes, no page numbering, no page laying, no change of font, etc., etc. EVERYDAY TONALITY II (2014) This is a DUMMY FILE used only for site indexing purposes
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