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Well, it's taking me longer than I expected to get back to this, and this message will also be something of a place-holder. But I can answer Nicolas Meeùs' query about the term "modality."
It turns out that Choron uses that term in the very same pas…
Thanks, Jason. I suppose I was being a little glib. Let’s start with Fétis:
One sign, I think, that Fétis is thinking about this very differently is that he is willing to—indeed, wants to—talk about tonalités (in the plural). For Riemann, in contr…
How about: a purely ideological construct introduced by Hugo Riemann in the late nineteenth century, and which has subsequently enjoyed a curious ascendency. (And yes, I'm aware that the term was popularized earlier by François-Joseph Fétis; he mean…