Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis
2021; Duke University; Volume: 65; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00222909-9124774
ISSN1941-7497
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoBook Review| April 01 2021 Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis Christensen, Thomas. Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis. University of Chicago Press, 2019: xvi +359 pp. ($55.00 cloth, $10.00 e-book). Daniel K. S. Walden Daniel K. S. Walden Daniel K. S. Walden is a junior research fellow in music at the Queen's College, University of Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Music Theory (2021) 65 (1): 171–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9124774 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel K. S. Walden; Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis. Journal of Music Theory 1 April 2021; 65 (1): 171–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9124774 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Music Theory Search Advanced Search THE BELGIAN MUSIC theorist François-Joseph Fétis, subject of countless tales in Thomas Christensen's Stories of Tonality, might easily be mistaken for a fictional character. Would a real music theorist dare to “correct” the dissonance in Mozart's “Dissonance” quartet (Fétis 1829), smear Pythagoras as “a charlatan, indeed, probably the most dishonorable one that ever lived” (Fétis 1828: 468n1), or deplore the entire history of the field as “the constant and almost always barren efforts of a vast number of erudite men” (Fétis 1840: iv)? Did the general public really pack the halls of the Conservatoire for his blockbuster lectures on theory, forcing luminaries such as Liszt to sneak into the auditorium through the back door? Was he actually the author of a sham Stradella and a counterfeit Cavalieri? Would a serious academic have the audacity to claim “the honor of... Copyright © 2021 by Yale University2021 Issue Section: Review You do not currently have access to this content.
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