Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music

Name: Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music
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ISBN: 9780131930803

ISBN-10: 013193080X

ISBN-13: 9780131930803

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Stefan Kostka

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KEY BENEFIT: This book provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to 20th-Century Music available from Impressionism to recent trends.It covers music from the early 1900s through such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism of the 1990s, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music.For individuals interested in music theory and harmony; and an analysis and history of 20th-century music.

Book details

List price: $120.60
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface



The Twilight of the Tonal System


Introduction


Diatonic Tonal Music


Chromatic Tonal Music


Chromatic Harmony


Chromaticism and Musical Form


Suspended Tonality and Atonality


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Scale Formations in Twentieth-Century Music


Introduction


Five-Note Scales


Six-Note Scales


Seven-Note Scales: The Diatonic Modes


Other Seven-Note Scales


Eight-Note Scales


The Chromatic Scale


Microtonal Scales


Other Possibilities


Summary


Notes


Exercises



The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities


Introduction


Conventional Tertian Sonorities


Tertian Chords with Added Notes


Tertian Chords with Split Chord Members


Open-5th Chords


Quartal and Quintal Chords


Secundal Chords


Mixed-Interval Chords


Whole-Tone Chords


Polychords


Summary


Notes


Exercises



The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading


Introduction


Tonal Melody


Some New Stylistic Features of Twentieth-Century Melody


Some Aspects of Melodic Organization


Voice Leading in Twentieth-Century Music


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Harmonic Progression and Tonality


Introduction


Traditional Approaches to Harmonic Progression


New Approaches to Harmonic Progression


Nonharmonic Music


Establishing A Tonal Center


Tertian and Nontertian Pitch-Centricity


Polytonality


Atonality


Pandiatonicism


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Developments in Rhythm


Introduction


Syncopation


Written Rhythm and Perceived Rhythm


Changing Time Signatures


Nontraditional Time Signatures


Polymeter


Ametric Music


Added Values and Nonretrogradable Rhythms


Tempo Modulation and Polytempo


Serialized Rhythm and Isorhythm


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Form in Twentieth-Century Music


Introduction


Binary Form


Ternary Form


Rondo Forms


Other Part Forms


Sonata Form


Sectional Variations


Continuous Variations


Canon and Fugue


Proportion: The Golden Mean


Nonthematic Delineators of Musical Form


Nonorganic Approaches to Musical Form


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Imports and Allusions


Introduction


Influences from the Past


Influences from Folk Music, Jazz, and Rock


Music from other Cultures


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Nonserial Atonality


Introduction


Characteristics of Atonal Music


Pitch-Class Sets


Octave Equivalence, Transpositional Equivalence, and Normal Order


Inversional Equivalence and Best Normal Order


Prime Forms and Set Classes


The Interval-Class Vector


Forte Labels


Subsets


Aggregates


More About Segmentation


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Classical Serialism


Introduction


Basic Terminology


The Twelve-Tone Matrix


A First Example


Analyzing A Row


Compositional Uses of the Row


Set Succession


Combinatoriality


The Analysis of Serial Music


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Timbre and Texture: Acoustic


Introduction


New Timbral Effects from Traditional Instruments


Wind Instruments


Stringed Instruments


Percussion Instruments


The Piano


The Voice


Instrumentation and Orchestration


Traditional Textures and Compound Textures


Pointillism, Stratification, and Sound-Mass


Texture as a form Determinant


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Timbre and Texture: Electronic


Introduction


Concrete Music


The Classical Electronic Music Studio


Digital Synthesis


The Development of Midi


Samplers, Personal Computers, and Recent Trends in Digital Synthesis


Tape and Instrument, Live Performance, and Interactive Computer Music


Notation of Electronic Music


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Serialism After 1945


Introduction


Integral Serialism


Integral Serialism in Perspective


Other Aspects of Serialism


Music After Serialism


Summary


Notes


Exercises



The Roles of Chance and Choice in Twentieth-Century Music


Introduction


Chance in Composition


Choice in Performance


Some Examples of Performer Indeterminacy


Graphic Scores and Text Scores


Music on the Fringe


Summary


Notes


Exercises



Minimalism and Beyond


Introduction


Minimalism


Beyond Minimalism


Summary and Conclusion


Notes


Exercises



Prime Forms, Forte Labels, and Interval-Class Vectors


Bibliography


Index