Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Name: Understanding Post-Tonal Music
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ISBN: 9780072936247

ISBN-10: 007293624X

ISBN-13: 9780072936247

Edition: 2008

Authors: Miguel Roig-Francoli

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Understanding Post-Tonal Musicexplores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. The book is intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music. The aim of the book is to increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding issues like pitch organization, 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.

Book details

List price: $155.33
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 5/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



About the Author


Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: An Overview of Twentieth-Century Compositional Styles


The Century of Plurality: Tonal, Post-tonal, Atonal, and Other Styles


The Stylistic Mosaic



Pitch Centricity and Composition with Motivic Cells Diatonic Collections Pentatonic Collections Analysis



Debussy, ""La cathedrale engloutie,"" from Preludes, Book I (Anthology, No. 1) Analysis



Stravinsky, Introduction to Part I, from The Rite of Spring (Anthology, No. 4)



Pitch Cen