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Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice

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ISBN-10: 0415888964

ISBN-13: 9780415888967

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward Pearsall

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This twentieth century music theory textbook includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. This text uses 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, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, Alexander Scriabin, Ernest Bloch, Ruth Crawford, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Leonard Bernstein, Olivier Messiaen, Charles Ives, and…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Byron Alm�n is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at The University of Texas at Austin and an accomplished pianist and organist.Edward Pearsall is Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Texas at Austin and is known internationally as a performer, composer, and scholar.