Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music

Name: Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music
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ISBN: 9780139240775

ISBN-10: 0139240772

ISBN-13: 9780139240775

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Stefan M. Kostka

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A core text for undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Music Theory and Harmony, Analysis of 20th-Century Music, 20th-Century Idioms, and a supplement for courses in 20th-Century Music History. This text 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 1990's, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music.

Book details

List price: $82.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/16/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




The Twilight of the Tonal System



Scale Formations in Twentieth-Century Music



The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities



The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading



Harmonic Progression and Tonality



Developments in Rhythm



Form in Twentieth-Century Music



Imports and Allusions



Nonserial Atonality



Classical Serialism



Timbre and Texture: Acoustic



Timbre and Texture: Electronic



Serialism After 1945



The Roles of Chance and Choice in Twentieth-Century Music



Minimalism and Neoromanticism


Bibliography


Index