Authors: Joseph N. Straus
ISBN-13: 9780131898905, ISBN-10: 0131898906
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: 3rd Edition
Emphasizing hands-on contact with the music—through playing, singing, listening, and analyzing—this book provides six chapters on theory, each illustrated with musical examples and fully worked-out analyses, all drawn largely from the “classical” pre-war repertoire by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Berg, and Webern.
This book offers exceptionally clear, simple explanations of basic theoretical concepts for the post-tonal music of the twentieth century. Chapter topics include basic concepts and definitions; pitch-class sets; centricity, referential collections, and triadic post-tonality; basic twelve-tone operations; and more twelve-tone topics.
Musicians and enthusiasts looking to explore advanced topics in music theory and analysis.
Ch. 1 | Basic concepts and definitions | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Pitch-class sets | 33 |
Ch. 3 | Some additional relationships | 79 |
Ch. 4 | Centricity, referential collections, and triadic post-tonality | 130 |
Ch. 5 | Basic twelve-tone operations | 182 |
Ch. 6 | More twelve-tone topics | 217 |