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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;

    Table of Contents

    1. THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM

    2. SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

    3. THE VERTICAL DIMENSION: CHORDS AND SIMULTANEITIES

    4. THE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION: MELODY AND VOICE LEADING

    5. HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY

    6. DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM

    7. FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

    8. IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS

    9. NONSERIAL ATONALITY

    10. CLASSICAL SERIALISM

    11. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC

    12. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC

    13. SERIALISM AFTER 1945

    14. THE ROLES OF CHANCE AND CHOICE IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

    15. MINIMALISM AND BEYOND

    APPENDIX: PRIME FORMS, FORTE LABELS, AND INTERVAL-CLASS VECTORS

Materials and Techniques of PostTonal Music

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 22 March 2018
      ISBN-13 9781138714199
      978-1138714199
      ISBN-10 1138714194
      Also in:
      Art music, orchestral and formal music Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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;

        Table of Contents

        1. THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM

        2. SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

        3. THE VERTICAL DIMENSION: CHORDS AND SIMULTANEITIES

        4. THE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION: MELODY AND VOICE LEADING

        5. HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY

        6. DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM

        7. FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

        8. IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS

        9. NONSERIAL ATONALITY

        10. CLASSICAL SERIALISM

        11. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC

        12. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC

        13. SERIALISM AFTER 1945

        14. THE ROLES OF CHANCE AND CHOICE IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

        15. MINIMALISM AND BEYOND

        APPENDIX: PRIME FORMS, FORTE LABELS, AND INTERVAL-CLASS VECTORS

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