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A Theory of Music Analysis

Author : Dora A. Hanninen
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580461948
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Music Analysis written by Dora A. Hanninen and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire including Western classical music from the Baroque to the present, with potential applications to jazz and popular music, and some non-Western musics. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with precise language and a broad, flexible conceptual framework through which they can formulate and investigate questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory, with copious musical illustrations, is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris. Dora A. Hanninen is professor of music theory at the University of Maryland. She received the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

Author : Anthony Pople
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521028301
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music written by Anthony Pople and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been far-reaching changes in the way music theorists and analysts view the nature of their disciplines. Encounters with structuralist and post-structuralist critical theory, and with linguistics and cognitive sciences, have brought the theory and analysis of music into the orbit of important developments in intellectual history. This book presents the work of a group of scholars who, without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, explore the limits of both in this context. Essays on the languages of analysis and theory, and on practical issues such as decidability, ambiguity and metaphor, combine with studies of works by Debussy, Schoenberg, Birtwistle and Boulez, together making a major contribution to an important debate in the growth of musicology.

Popular Music Theory and Analysis

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315465280
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music Theory and Analysis written by Thomas Robinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on popular music.

Conceptualizing Music

Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019803217X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Music written by Lawrence M. Zbikowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy. The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.

Performance Analysis

Author : Madalena Soveral
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523063
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Performance Analysis written by Madalena Soveral and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights different questions concerning music theory, interpretation, and performance. Organized into four chapters, the first section looks into interpretation from a hermeneutic perspective, whereas the second analyses the application of this knowledge in musical practice. The discussion turns, in the third part, to a new field of music theory broadly labelled as performance studies. Focused on physical and psychological events, this section broaches fundamental issues such as gesture, bodily movement, expression, emotion, a whole set of processes that act within the framework of performance. The final section addresses the artistic practices in the 21st century across present-day cultural contexts. Proposing a space for reflection in which one tries to imagine the relation between the scientific field and the interpretative process, this volume reflects the central issues of research in performance analysis, establishing connections between different disciplines, methodologies and research trends. It will be of essential interest to researchers, musicians and performers, and music students.

Music Analysis in Theory and Practice

Author : Jonathan Dunsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571100699
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Music Analysis in Theory and Practice written by Jonathan Dunsby and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performative Analysis

Author : Jeffrey Swinkin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465269
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Performative Analysis written by Jeffrey Swinkin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.

The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis

Author : Jane Piper Clendinning
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393600483
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis written by Jane Piper Clendinning and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis is a complete package of theory and aural skills resources that covers every topic commonly taught in the undergraduate sequence. The package can be mixed and matched for every classroom, and with Norton’s new Know It? Show It! online pedagogy, students can watch video tutorials as they read the text, access formative online quizzes, and tackle workbook assignments in print or online. In its third edition, The Musician’s Guide retains the same student-friendly prose and emphasis on real music that has made it popular with professors and students alike.

Towards a Global Music Theory

Author : Professor Mark Hijleh
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409461408
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Global Music Theory written by Professor Mark Hijleh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to blossom and develop through the twenty-first century and beyond. Yet music theory as an academic discipline is only just beginning to respond to such a milieu. Conferences, workshops and curricula are for the first time beginning to develop around the theme of 'world music theory', as students, teachers and researchers recognize the need for analytical concepts and methods applicable to a wider range of human musics, not least the hybrid musics that influence (and increasingly define) more and more of the world's musical practices. Towards a Global Music Theory proposes a number of such concepts and methods stemming from durational and acoustic relationships between 'twos' and 'threes' as manifested in various interrelated aspects of music, including rhythm, melody, harmony, process, texture, timbre and tuning, and offers suggestions for how such concepts and methods might be applied effectively to the understanding of music in a variety of contexts. While some of the bases for this foray into possible methods for a twenty-first century music theory lie along well established acoustical and psycho-acoustical lines, Dr Mark Hijleh presents a broad attempt to apply them conceptually and comprehensively to a variety of musics in a relevant way that can be readily apprehended and applied by students, scholars and teachers.

Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music

Author : Judy Lochhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317581083
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music written by Judy Lochhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover, postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist, etc. and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches do not provide adequate tools to address this music in positive and productive terms. Existing tools and concepts were developed primarily in the mid-20th century in tandem with the high modernist compositional aesthetic, and they have changed little since then. The aesthetics of music composition, on the other hand, have been in constant transformation. Lochhead proposes new ways to conceive musical works, their structurings of musical experience and time, and the procedures and goals of analytic close reading. These tools define investigative procedures that engage the multiple perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners, and that generate conceptual modes unique to each work. In action, they rebuild a conceptual, methodological, and experiential place for recent music. These new approaches are demonstrated in analyses of four pieces: Kaija Saariaho’s Lonh (1996), Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet (1987), Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet no.2, Demons and Angels (2004-05), and Anna Clyne’s "Choke" (2004). This book defies the prediction of classical music’s death, and will be of interest to scholars and musicians of classical music, and those interested in music theory, musicology, and aural culture.

Graphic Music Analysis

Author : Eric Wen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538104679
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Music Analysis written by Eric Wen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches Schenkerian analysis in a practical and accessible manner fit for the classroom, guiding readers through a step-by-step process. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of musicology, music theory, composition, and performance, and it is replete with a wide variety of musical examples.

A Theory of Musical Narrative

Author : Byron Almén
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253030285
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Musical Narrative written by Byron Almén and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical reorientation of the field. This volume includes an extensive survey of traditional approaches to musical narrative illustrated by a wide variety of musical examples that highlight the range and applicability of the theoretical apparatus. Almén provides a careful delineation of the essential elements and preconditions of musical narrative organization, an eclectic analytical model applicable to a wide range of musical styles and repertoires, a classification scheme of narrative types and subtypes reflecting conceptually distinct narrative strategies, a wide array of interpretive categories, and a sensitivity to the dependence of narrative interpretation on the cultural milieu of the work, its various audiences, and the analyst. A Theory of Musical Narrative provides both an excellent introduction to an increasingly important conceptual domain and a complex reassessment of its possibilities and characteristics.

Music Theory, Analysis, and Society

Author : RobertP. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557149
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music Theory, Analysis, and Society written by RobertP. Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author of the well-known Norton volume Twentieth-Century Music, and of additional books relating to Schenkerian and other theory, analysis and society. This volume of Morgan‘s previously published essays encompasses a broad range of issues, including historical and social issues and is of importance to anyone concerned with modern Western music. His specially written introduction treats his writings as a whole but also provides additional material relating to the articles included in this volume.

Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven

Author : Adolf Bernhard Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521452740
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven written by Adolf Bernhard Marx and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed a holistic pedagogical method as well as a theory of musical form that gives pride of place to Beethoven. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented here in English for the first time. It features Marx's oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony. These writings thus deal with issues that fall directly among the concerns of mainstream theory and analysis in the last two centuries: the relation of form and content, the analysis of instrumental music, the role of pedagogy in music theory, and the nature of musical understanding.

Revisiting Music Theory

Author : Alfred Blatter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113587039X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Music Theory written by Alfred Blatter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Music Theory: A Guide to the Practice contains the basics of music theory with the vocabulary used in harmonic and formal analysis. The book assumes few music reading skills, and progresses to include the basic materials of music from J. S. Bach to the twentieth century. Based on Blatter’s own three decades of teaching music theory, this book is aimed at a one or two year introductory course in music theory, can serve for individual study, or as a review for graduate students returning to school. Drawing examples from well-known classical works, as well as folk and popular music, the book shows how theory is applied to practice. The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces music notation, reviewing the basics of pitch, time, and dynamics as represented in written music. Part 2 introduces the concept of melody, covering modes, scales, scale degrees, and melodic form. Part 3 introduces harmony, dealing with harmonic progression, rhythm, and chord types. Part 4 addresses part writing and harmonic analysis. Finally, Part 5 addresses musical form, and how form is used to structure a composition. Revisiting Music Theory will be a valuable textbook for students, professors, and professionals.

Everything in Its Right Place

Author : Brad Osborn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190629231
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Everything in Its Right Place written by Brad Osborn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in its Right Place identifies the secret to Radiohead's immense commercial and critical success in the band's ability to navigate a sweet spot between expectation and surprise. The author uses tools from musical perception, semiotics, and music theory to demonstrate this reconciliation of extremes, and analyzes musical meaning with lyrics, biographical details, and intertextual relationships.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory

Author : Alexander Rehding
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190454741
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory written by Alexander Rehding and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Theory operates with a number of fundamental terms that are rarely explored in detail. This book offers in-depth reflections on key concepts from a range of philosophical and critical approaches that reflect the diversity of the contemporary music theory landscape.