Download or read book Music in Transition written by Jim Samson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades from 1900 to 1920 saw important changes in the very language of music. Traditional tonal organization gave way to new forms of musical expression and many of the foundations of modern music were laid. Samson first explores tonal expansion in the music of such nineteenth-centurycomposers as Liszt and Wagner and its reinterpretation in the music of Debussy, Busoni, Bartok, and Stravinsky. He then traces the atonal revolution, revealing the various paths taken by Schoenberg and his followers and describing their very different stylistic development.
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 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 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 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 Twelve Tone Tonality Second Edition written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-07-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge, in twentieth-century music, to the normative status of triadic tonality is one of the most far-reaching and extreme revolutions that the history of music has known. In his classic work, Twelve-Tone Tonality, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. According to Perle, these elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters. Some of these are "postscripts" to earlier chapters, clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment. Errors discovered in the original edition have been corrected. - Jacket flap.
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 Tonality in Modern Music written by Rudolph Reti and published by New York : Collier Books. This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally appeared under the title : Tonality, atonality, pantonality.
Download or read book Music Composition For Dummies written by Scott Jarrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can! Music Composition For Dummies demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating melodies and chord progressions and working with instruments and voices. In this fun and practical guide, you’ll learn how to match keys and chords to the mood you want to convey, work a form without limiting your creativity, and hammer out a musical idea, even when your mind is drawing a blank. You’ll find out how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, and video game soundtracks. And, you’ll learn what you need to know about music composition software, including Finale, Sebelius, Pro Tools, and more. Discover how to: Preserve and organize your musical ideas Work with established chord progressions or create your own Develop great rhythms Select the right instruments Find melodies in your head, your instrument, and the world around you Use major and minor scales Work with modes and moods Build melodic motifs and phrases Use the circle of fifths to harmonize Write for multiple voices Make a demo recording Filled with creative exercises to build your composing skills, Music Composition for Dummies is the resource you need to get that melody out of your head and into the world.
Download or read book Tonality Atonality Pantonality written by Rudolph Reti and published by London : Barrie and Rockliff. This book was released on 1958 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tonality and Atonality In written by Edward E. Lowinsky and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tonal Structures in Early Music written by Cristle Collins Judd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives.
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 The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1893 1908 written by Walter Frisch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1893 and 1908, composer Arnold Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music and symphonic music. Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's rich repertory of early tonal works. 139 music examples. 2 illustrations.
Download or read book Tonality in Western Culture written by Richard Norton and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates "the first critical appraisal of the whole of Western tonal consciousness, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to the latest popular song." While tonality has been unwittingly championed as the product of the bourgeois age in Europe and America from 1600 to 1900, Norton states, key-centered music is understood here merely to exhibit components of an encompassing sonic expressivity as durable as any language. The author analyzes fundamental components of Western tonal phenomena that have persisted in music from ancient Jewish cantillation to the so-called atonal procedures of the Schoenberg school and beyond. Norton isolates the role of traditional music theory in the creation of models that attempted to explain tonality solely in terms of the concretized and limited objectivity of the musical score. The author evaluates and discards those features of logical positivism, scientific empiricism, idealism, and vitalism that in his view have encumbered virtually all speculation on tonality. With this negation, his aim is to restore the composer as a creator subject to his own sonic object. The book's approach is particularly indebted to the thought of Theodor Adorno, the member of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists that Norton finds most capable of suggesting an authentic dialectic of tonality. The author interprets the activities of both theorists and composers from various periods within the context of their mutual and conflicting historical interests. Ranging through the fields of physics, acoustics, psychology, sociology, economics, and historical musicology and criticism, Norton demonstrates that the cognitive abilities and disabilities of humans as tonal hearers form a necessary ground for understanding the remarkable vitality of tonality as historical process. Current theories of human tonal activity are hopelessly limited, the book concludes, however self-preserving they have become through the sanction of academic respectability. In short, tonal science, as it is commonly practiced, is not tonal truth. In its place the author urges a thoroughgoing critique of the language and methodology of contemporary tonal speculation, an abandonment of its confining sphere of interest, and a new and liberating approach to tonal consciousness that incorporates all relevant data of human sonic cognition. This approach assumes that tonality is not merely the result of the physical unfolding of natural appearance--the overtone series that so enchanted Rameau, Schenker, Hindemith, and others--and the submission of composers to its assumed authority. Tonality is, rather, Norton contends, a decision made against the chaos of pitch and for the human potential to create works of music that speak with integrity and beauty, that as aesthetic creations neither lag behind nor rush ahead of human enjoyment and understanding.
Download or read book Materials and Techniques of Post Tonal Music written by Stefan Kostka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to post-tonal music available, from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through the present day, with discussion of such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in post-tonal music. Chapter-end exercises involve drills, analysis, composition, as well as several listening assignments.
Download or read book Serial Composition and Atonality written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
