Authors: Stefan Kostka
ISBN-13: 9780131930803, ISBN-10: 013193080X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: 3rd Edition
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 1990's, 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.
1 | The twilight of the tonal system | 1 |
2 | Scale formations in twentieth-century music | 22 |
3 | The vertical dimension : chords and simultaneities | 46 |
4 | The horizontal dimension : melody and voice leading | 74 |
5 | Harmonic progression and tonality | 98 |
6 | Developments in rhythm | 114 |
7 | Form in twentieth-century music | 140 |
8 | Imports and allusions | 157 |
9 | Nonserial atonality | 175 |
10 | Classical serialism | 198 |
11 | Timbre and texture : acoustic | 222 |
12 | Timbre and texture : electronic | 245 |
13 | Serialism after 1945 | 264 |
14 | The roles of change and choice in twentieth-century music | 284 |
15 | Minimalism and beyond | 301 |
App | Prime forms, forte labels, and interval-class vectors | 319 |