This volume, the fourth in a series of online publications that the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies promotes from its international ethnomusicology seminars, stems from the three-year work of a research group funded by the Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung and consists of a series of monographic studies on the conception of harmony in Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varèse and Anton Webern. The authors focus their attention on one or more works by the composer of reference, relating the harmonic processes to the theoretical issues debated at the time or that emerged in subsequent decades. The approach takes particular account of current developments in international musicology, the gaps in Italian studies and the needs of higher education in AFAM and university venues. At the same time, it aims to make a contribution to the reflection and methodology of music theory in our times.

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