• Acknowledgements


• About the Companion Website


• Chapter 1: How We Got into Harmonic Tonality, and How to Get Out


• Chapter 2: La questione della lingua: Transmission and Translation of Musical Style


• Chapter 3: The Work of the Words


• Chapter 4: Halves Requiring Completion


• Chapter 5: From Phrase Structure to Form: The Balletto


• Chapter 6: Tonal Orientation: New Tools for Navigating the Formal Landscape


• Chapter 7: Humanism and the Invention of Homophony


• Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Index

Megan Kaes Long is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Her work explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century secular song traditions, the theories that describe them, and the ways in which they inform the histories of modality and tonality.

In Hearing Homophony, Megan Kaes Long presents a groundbreaking model for understanding tonality and its origins, examining it through the lens of popular songs of late-Renaissance Western Europe.