Analyzing Atonal Music

Analyzing Atonal Music

Author: Michiel Schuijer

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781580462709

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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.


The Structure of Atonal Music

The Structure of Atonal Music

Author: Allen Forte

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780300021202

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Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music


Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Author: Jack Boss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1108419135

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Portrays Schoenberg's atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out 'musical idea' and 'basic image' frameworks.


Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice

Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice

Author: Edward Pearsall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0415888956

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Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also engaged. While many of the theoretical tools for analyzing twentieth century music have been devised to analyze atonal music, they may also provide insight into a much broader array of styles. This text capitalizes on this idea by using the theoretical devices associated with atonality to explore music inclusive of a large number of schools and contains examples by such stylistically diverse composers as Paul Hindemith, George Crumb, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, Philip Glass, Alexander Scriabin, Ernest Bloch, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Leonard Bernstein. This textbook also provides a number of analytical, compositional, and written exercises. The aural skills supplement and online aural skills trainer on the companion website allow students to use theoretical concepts as the foundation for analytical listening. Access additional resources and online material here: http: //www.twentiethcenturymusictheoryandpractice.net and https: //www.motivichearing.com/.


Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Author: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1000332632

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Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. Intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, this book will increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding pitch organization, rhythm and meter, form, texture, and aesthetics. By presenting the music first and then deriving the theory, Understanding Post-Tonal Music leads students to greater understanding and appreciation of this challenging and important repertoire. The updated second edition includes new "Explorations" features that guide students to engage with pieces through listening and a process of exploration, discovery, and discussion; a new chapter covering electronic, computer, and spectral musics; and additional coverage of music from the twenty-first century and recent trends. The text has been revised throughout to enhance clarity, both by streamlining the prose and by providing a visual format more accessible to the student.


Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Author: Stefan Kostka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1351859218

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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.


Performative Analysis

Performative Analysis

Author: Jeffrey Swinkin

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1580465269

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This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.


Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-century Music

Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-century Music

Author: Joel Lester

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9780393957624

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Designed to introduce the reader to a variety of analytic techniques applicable to music of our century, this valuable new book is written in a straightforward, clear style and includes abundant music examples, practical exercises, and reinforcing overviews.


Explaining Tonality

Explaining Tonality

Author: Matthew Brown

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1580461603

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A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.