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Neo-Riemannian Theories
By George, William

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Neo-Riemannian Theories Edward Gollin and Alexander Rending, eds. The

Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. 605 pp. ISBN 9780195321333. $119.32

Twenty eminent contemporary music theorists examine, apply, assess, extend, or

provide translations of aspects of rhe comprehensive approach to music of the pre-
eminent nineteenth-century theorist Hugo Riemann (1849-1919). In his search for
a complete theory of music, Riemann produced more than fifty-five books and 200
articles establishing rhe foundations for modern music theory.

In the "Preface" (pp. ix-xi) the editors explain the origins and principles of neo-
Riemannian rheory
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The approaches that are now grouped together under the name neoRiemaniann
theory first emerged over twenty-five years ago. The theory first grew out of the
work of David Lewin and Brian Hyer, who treated certain functional triadic
relationships in Riemann s harmonic theory as mathematical transformations
acting on triads, using those transformations (and their attendant group
structures) to model structural relations in late-nineteenth-century music.
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Summer 2012

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