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MUSIC and CAPITALISM

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52095-1

ISBN: 978-1-137-52094-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 7, 2021

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Chapter 1The Necessity of Music

Sagall, Sabby

Pages: 1 –17

[Music’s essential processes are rooted in human physiology. Listening to music stimulates both emotional and physiological changes. The capacity of music to evoke similar emotional and physical responses in different people means it is able to unify. The sounds which constitute music—tones—are...
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Chapter 2The Late Baroque Style

Sagall, Sabby

Pages: 19 –69

[Around 800 AD, musicians started playing two or more notes together instead of successively. Notation was created around 1000 AD, a system still used today. Dance influenced music. Late seventeenth-century ‘keys’ system replaced medieval church modal music. Baroque music emphasised single, upper...
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Chapter 3The Classical Style

Sagall, Sabby

Pages: 71 –144

[Galant style bridged late Baroque and Classical styles. All the Classical forms—sonata, trio, quartet, symphony—used the ‘sonata form’. Difference between late Baroque and Classical melodies: with Bach, each musical voice is independent but individual lines interact. With Haydn and Mozart, there...
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Chapter 4The Romantic Style

Sagall, Sabby

Pages: 145 –235

[Romantic cultural movements in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century reacted against the Enlightenment and appropriation of nature by scientific rationalism and industrialisation. The Classical style, a closed form, was rationalistic, in search of harmony, whereas the Romantic was open,...
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Chapter 5The Modernist Styles

Sagall, Sabby

Pages: 237 –330

[Modern music’s diversity: Post-Romanticism, Impressionism, Atonality, Serialism, Neo-Classicism, Expressionism, Minimalism. Jazz important influence. European music transformed by three strands of Modernism: Debussy’s ‘Impressionism’, Schoenberg’s atonal music, Stravinsky’s rhythmic revolution....

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