The Birth of Tonality in the French Music Theory of the Second Half of the 16th-17th Centuries

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Zoya I. Gljadeshkina

Abstract

The article discusses the primary parameters of tonality in French music of the 1550s-1700s from the standpoint of modern history of music theory. The article contains the evaluation of 21 French treatises on the topic of the signs of emerging tonality. In the conclusion, there is a review of theoretical ideas which have lead to the theoretical concept of tonality of J.-F. Rameau.

Keywords: tonality, modality, cadence, the order of clefs, harmony, tone, major key, minor key

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Gljadeshkina, Z. I. (2011). The Birth of Tonality in the French Music Theory of the Second Half of the 16th-17th Centuries. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 8(1), 70–74. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/464
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Musical Language in its Historic Evolution