Comprehensive Musical Analysis
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Comprehensive Musical Analysis

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eBook - ePub

Comprehensive Musical Analysis

About this book

Now available in paperback! Evolved from the author's widely used book, The Analysis of Music (Prentice-Hall, 1975; 2nd. ed. Scarecrow Press, 1984), Comprehensive Music Analysis is a guide for acquiring the tools of musical analysis, skills which are essential to every serious musician and musical scholar. The new volume presents material on Heinrich Schenker and reductive linear analysis and additional material on set theoretical analysis. White's theoretical writing is characterized by logic of methodology, clarity of organization, and lucidity of prose. It should be eagerly received by theorists seeking a comprehensive view of current methodology. White's approach to current theoretical dogma is not uncritical. As Gerald Warfield (General Editor of the recent English translation of Schenker's Der Freie Satz) says in his Preface to White's new book,'...we begin to glimpse a powerful tool which does not exist in any single school of theory or musicology, but which draws upon any and all nethodologies as required by the analyst. The opinions in this book are strong. Indeed, there is material which may disturb the dogmatic, yet the author's intentions are clear. White invites you to take your cue for analysis from the compositions themselves rather than from dogma.' Replete with musical examples, charts, and diagrams, the book is more than a treatise on analysis, it is a valuable tool for the advanced student of music as well as the musical scholar.

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Information

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Year
1994
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781461657668
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter One: The Purpose and Nature of Analysis
  8. Chapter Two: The Analytical Method
  9. Chapter Three: Reductive Linear Analysis
  10. Chapter Four: Substructural Units of Music
  11. Chapter Five: Normative Structures
  12. Chapter Six: Melody and Rhythm
  13. Chapter Seven: Harmony
  14. Chapter Eight: Harmonic Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music
  15. Chapter Nine: Counterpoint
  16. Chapter Ten: The Element of Sound
  17. Chapter Eleven: An Approach to Musical Sound in Analysis
  18. Chapter Twelve: Synthesis and Evaluation
  19. Appendix
  20. Index
  21. About the Author

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