Download or read book Audacious Euphony written by Richard Cohn and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance, Audacious Euphony advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music. Author Rick Cohn uncovers the source of the indeterminacy and uncanniness of romantic music, as he focuses on the slippage between chromatic and diatonic progressions and the systematic principles under which each operate.