Harmonic Relations: American Popular Harmonies (1925–1950) and Their European Kin

With reference to the repertoire of European avant-garde music that emerged in the early twentieth century and to the American popular music of the “golden” period 1925–1950, the article examines correspondences between specific classes of harmonies, partially interpreted as pitch-class sets, primarily in terms of their total interval content, with attention given to musical contexts of small scale.