Desire in Chromatic Harmony : Oxford University Press : 9780190923426 : 0190923423 : 29 Jun 2020 : "Of the many composers in the Western classical tradition who celebrated the marriage between psyche and sound, those explored in this book followed the lines diverging from Wagner in philosophizing the nature of desire in music. This books offers two new theories of tonal functionality in the music of the first half of the twentieth century that seek to explain its psychological complexities. First, the book further develops Riemann's three diatonic chord functions, extending them to account from chromatic chord progression and substitution. The three functions (Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant) are compared to Jacques Lacan's twin-concepts of metaphor and metonymy which drive the human desiring apparatus. Second, the book develops a technique for analysingthe "drives" that pull chromatic music in multiple directions simultaneously, creating a libidinal surface that mirrors the tensions of t