Williams, Peter (Arts and Sciences Professor, Duke University, USA)
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Hardback
270 pages
200 Music Examples, Bibliography, Index
Published: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198165633
Despite its rather forbidding name, the "Chromatic Fourth" is one of the most familiar short themes in virtually all western music over the 400 years before the middle of the 20th century. This is an attempt to trace its likely origins and evolution.