In Search of New Scales: Prince Edmond de Polignac, Octatonic Explorer
- Author: Kahan, Sylvia
One can only admire the mammoth research that S. Kahan has carried out regarding [Polignac's] life. . . . Polignac surveys the possibilities of a new musical language more deeply than did his... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction: Edmond de Polignac and the Discovery of Octatonicism
- Chapter 1: Childhood and Education (1834-1859)
- Chapter 2: A Young Composer (1859-1877)
- Chapter 3: Scales A, B, C: Polignac's Invention of Octatonicism (1877-1879)
- Chapter 4: "Nothing of the Usual Tonality" (1880-1888)
- Chapter 5: The Unexpected Woman (1889-1894)
- Chapter 6: Alexandre de Bertha and the Guerre des gammes (1894-1896)
- Chapter 7: Years of Plenty (1894-1899)
- Chapter 8: Endings and Echoes (1900-)
- Chapter 9: Edmond de Polignac's Octatonic Music
- Afterword
- Preface to Polignac's Octatonic Treatise
- Polignac's Octatonic Treatise, "A Study on the Alternating Sequences of Whole Steps and Half Steps, (and on the Scale Known as Major-Minor)"
- Edmond de Polignac, "Etude sur les successions alternantes de tons et demi-tons (Et sur la gamme dite majeure-mineure)"