- 432 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Understanding Post-Tonal Music
About this book
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; andadditional 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgment of Sources
- Introduction: An Overview of Twentieth Century Compositional Styles
- 1 Pitch Centricity and Composition With Motivic Cells
- 2 Pitch Centricity, Equal Divisions of the Octave, and Symmetry
- 3 Introduction to Pitch-Class Set Theory
- 4 Analyzing Atonal Music
- 5 Drawing on (and Reinterpreting) the Past …
- 6 … And Inventing the Future
- 7 Twelve-Tone Music I: An Introduction
- 8 Twelve-Tone Music II: Invariance, Symmetry, and Combinatoriality
- 9 Serialism: Developments After 1945
- 10 Expanding the Limits of Musical Temporality
- 11 Aleatory Music: Sound Mass, Texture, and Timbre
- 12 Electronic, Computer, and Spectral Musics
- 13 Integrating the Past and Reimagining Harmony
- 14 Simplifying Means
- 15 Into the Twenty-First Century
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Musical Example Index
- Subject Index