Download or read book Serial Composition and Atonality written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In the analysis of specific compositions there is first and last of all a concern with the musical surface—an attempt to trace connections and distinctions there before offering any deeper-level constructions, and to offer none where their effects are not obvious on more immediate levels of musical experience. In this sixth edition of the book, George Perle employs the new and more consistent terminology for the identification of transpositional levels of twelve-tone sets that he first proposed in Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977).
Download or read book Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth Century Music written by Edward E. Lowinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth Century Music written by Edward Elias Lowinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Serial Composition and Atonality written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908 1923 written by Bryan R. Simms and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1908 and 1923, Arnold Schoenberg began writing music that went against many of the accepted concepts and practices of this art. Largely following his intuition during these years, he composed some of the masterpieces of the modern repertoire--including Pierrot lunaire and Erwartung--works that have since provoked a large, though fragmented, body of critical and analytical writing. In this book, Bryan Simms combines a historical study with a close analytical reading of the music to give us a new and richer understanding of Schoenberg's seminal work during this period.
Download or read book The Structure of Atonal Music written by Allen Forte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music
Download or read book Analyzing Atonal Music written by Michiel Schuijer and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 40 years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allan Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. This text combines thorough discussions of musical concepts with an historical narrative.
Download or read book Music in the Early Twentieth Century written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie, and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives, the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich
Download or read book Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg s Four Songs Op 2 written by Gary Richard Tucker and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of tonality and atonality in four brief pieces of Berg's work, analyzing the shift from tonal to atonal music with the view that tonality and atonality are complementary contexts framing musical coherence. The four works are described in detail, with special attention to the role of pitch structures in each. An appendix features texts in the original German and translated into English. Tucker teaches music at Mount Allison University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Constructive Dissonance written by Juliane Brand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There cannot ever be too many good books about Schoenberg, and so it is a special pleasure to welcome Constructive Dissonance, which is far beyond just 'good.' These essays cover a generous range in style and idea. Many of them also are deeply moving, and nothing could be more appropriate for the composer of our century's most fiercely intense music."--Michael Steinberg, author of The Symphony: A Listener's Guide "Although much has been written about Schoenberg, no group of essays examines his life and work in such a broad context. Here we find Schoenberg's matrix: the social, cultural, political, and artistic currents that helped shape him, and to which he made his own extraordinary contribution."--Robert P. Morgan, author of Twentieth-Century Music "As we approach the turn of this century, it is clear that Arnold Schoenberg must becounted as one of the most important figures in Western art music during the last one hundred years. Schoenberg's influence on art-music culture has not only worked its effects through his music, but also through his thinking and writing about music. This collection makes a fitting tribute to Schoenberg and does an admirable job of presenting the many facets of Schoenberg the composer, music theorist, and thinker. These thought-provoking essays present a broad range of approaches to a rich variety of topics within Schoenberg scholarship, and readers will find both familiar and not-so-familiar issues arising during the course of the volume. Constructive Dissonance is certain to become an important book for those interested in twentieth-century art music and culture, and seminal reading for anyone interested in Arnold Schoenberg and his work."--John Covach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Download or read book Atonality and Structure in Works of Bela Bartok s Middle Period written by Paul Frederick Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reader s Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 2624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Download or read book Harvard Dictionary of Music written by Willi Apel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
Download or read book Materials and Techniques of Post Tonal Music written by Stefan Kostka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music. This updated fifth edition features: chapters revised throughout to include new examples from recent music and insights from the latest scholarship; the introduction of several new concepts and topics, including parsimonius voice-leading, scalar transformations, the New Complexity, and set theory in less chromatic contexts; expanded discussions of spectralism and electronic music; timelines in each chapter, grounding the music discussed in its chronological context; a companion website that provides students with links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text and provides instructors with an instructor’s manual that covers all of the exercises in each chapter. Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.
Download or read book Schoenberg s Atonal Music written by Jack Boss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays Schoenberg's atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out 'musical idea' and 'basic image' frameworks.
Download or read book Temptations of Faust written by Evelyn Cobley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical analysis of the conceptual paradigms that allowed German fascism, at once continuous and discontinuous with the emancipatory ambitions of modernity, to emerge in a highly civilized nation.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Music Composition written by Michael Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write the songs that make the whole world sing. A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. Designed for composers of all types of music, it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies, using different scales and modes, themes and variations, orchestration, and composing for film, theater, and videogames. -Perfect complement to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting -Includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms, as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools -Easy-to-use oversize trim
