Toward a Formal Theory of Tonal Music
Author: Fred Lerdahl
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
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A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, reissue, with a new preface
Author: Fred Lerdahl
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996-06-03
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780262260916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics. This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener. From the viewpoint of traditional music theory, it offers many innovations in notation as well as in the substance of rhythmic and reductional theory.
Heinrich Schenker
Author: Benjamin Ayotte
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1000101258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book consists of over 1,500 citations to both primary sources and the burgeoning secondary literature of Heinrich Schenker, annotated and subdivided by category. The citations are supplemented with indices cross-referencing entries according to individual works and analytical topic.
Cadence
Author: Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus of Music Theory William E Caplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-10-04
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 0197782167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCadence explores the many ways in which the component parts of a classical composition achieve a sense of ending. The book examines cadential practice in a wide variety of musical styles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including works by well-known composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms.
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory
Author: Alexander Rehding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 019045475X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic Theory has a lot of ground to cover. Especially in introductory classes a whole range of fundamental concepts are introduced at fast pace that can never be explored in depth or detail, as other new topics become more pressing. The short time we spend with them in the classroom belies the complexity (and, in many cases, the contradictions) underlying these concepts. This book takes the time to tarry over these complexities, probe the philosophical assumptions on which these concepts rest, and shine a light on all their iridescent facets. This book presents music-theoretical concepts as a register of key terms progressing outwards from smallest detail to discussions of the music-theoretical project on the largest scale. The approaches individual authors take range from philosophical, historical, or analytical to systematic, cognitive, and critical-theorical-covering the whole diverse spectrum of contemporary music theory. In some cases authors explore concepts that have not yet been widely added to the theorist's toolkit but deserve to be included; in other cases concepts are expanded beyond their core repertory of application. This collection does not shy away from controversy. Taken in their entirety, the essays underline that music theory is on the move, exploring new questions, new repertories, and new approaches. This collection is an invitation to take stock of music theory in the early twenty-first century, to look back and to encourage discussion about its future directions. Its chapters open up a panoramic view of the contemporary music-theoretical landscape with its expanding repertories and changing guiding questions, and offers suggestions as to where music theory is headed in years to come.
Cadence
Author: William E. Caplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-09-20
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 0190056460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCadence is a comprehensive examination of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure. The book brings together the author's decades-long investigations into cadence, a compositional device that is readily experienced both by musicians and non-musicians, but one that has proven intractable to clear and precise theoretical formulation. Rooted in Caplin's broader theory of formal functions, the book first develops concepts of cadence for music of the high classical style and then extends these ideas to gauge cadential practice in earlier and later style periods. Throughout the study, various manifestations of cadence are defined in terms of their morphology (their harmonic and melodic profiles) as well as their function (the specific formal contexts in which they are deployed). Cadence introduces a host of theoretical concepts illustrated by copious musical examples, all of which contain extensive analytical annotations of harmony, melody and form. Though the book is addressed primarily to music theorists, the many issues of compositional practice raised in this study will resonate with the interests of composers, historians, and performers alike.
Tonal Pitch Space
Author: Fred Lerdahl
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780195058345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Tonal Pitch Space' presents a model of diatonic space that quantifies intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords and keys.
Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis
Author: Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 158046999X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez's widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
Musical Time
Author: Barbara R. Barry
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780945193012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn order for musical structure to be understood and appreciated as coherent design, the raw material must be shaped and clarified by the listener's perceptual processes of selection and organization. Going beyond the boundaries of traditional analytic observation, Barbara Barry explores the concept of experiential time in a specifically musical and philosophic context, delving into the aspects of perceptual process (the interrelationship between subjective and objective perception of musical compositions and performance). A wealth of published experimental findings and writings on music theory and the philosophy of time are cited, accompanied by numerous musical examples, here brought together in a supporting interpretation and theoretical exemplification.
Frames of Mind
Author: Howard E Gardner
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0465024343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“There’s a book I recommend for everybody: It’s Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind. It has helped me immensely.” – Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power What do we mean when we call someone smart? That they are good at math and got a high score on the SAT? That they learn languages easily? Those traits might be what comes to mind first: they are what underly psychology’s classic definition of intelligence, and what we are told in school that a smart person can do. But they are not the whole story. As Howard Gardner argues in the groundbreaking classic Frames of Mind, to limit our understanding of intelligence to “book smarts” misses much of what makes human beings amazing. Someone who plays an instrument well is exhibiting intelligence. So, too, someone who knows how to do physical comedy—is their mastery of their movements and the space around them not brilliant? And to have a profound knowledge of their own self, their relationships with others, and relationships between others, too, is to show great intelligence as well. Gardner calls this the theory of multiple intelligences. But this isn’t just a book for intellectuals who want to argue about what intelligence is, or educators debating how to teach. It is for each of us. In an era of teaching to the test, and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, Gardner’s work is a celebration of all the ways there are to be huma
