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many-meanings · kopp1995-function-of-function
- Citation
- kopp1995-function-of-function
- Claim ID
- many-meanings
- Assertion
- Kopp argues that harmonic function has no unitary, universally understood meaning: the term is used for scale-degree identity, for a chord's tendency to progress, for grouping chords with similar behaviour, for the primacy of tonic, dominant and subdominant, and for phrase-based syntax, among other things. Theories by Rameau, Weber and Riemann are all associated with the concept but mean quite different things by it.
- Quote
The concept of harmonic function, far from carrying a unitary and universally understood meaning, has signified many different things to theorists past and present. This essay examines some of the different meanings commonly associated with the term today, as well as aspects of the harmonic theories of Rameau, Weber, and Riemann, all regularly associated with the concept.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- paragraph: Abstract; 1-2
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