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Book Synopsis Dodecaphonic Tonality - A New Tonal System for a New Century by : Joseph M. Krush
Download or read book Dodecaphonic Tonality - A New Tonal System for a New Century written by Joseph M. Krush and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-Tone Tonality: Expanded Diatonicism - Dr. Joseph Krush presents new Dodecaphonic Tonal sets and leads readers through Expanded Diatonicism, Nonaphonic and Decaphonic Bi-modality, culminating with "The World's Best Dodecaphonic Tonal Set." He illustrates Semi-Modulation through Rotating Quintcircles. Relative Compatibility of Keys and Chromatic Clashes of Tones are also explored. Composers will benefit from this groundbreaking new system. Krush addresses the question: "What kind of a tonal system would result if the major and minor modes were combined into one, fused major/minor key?" His ultimate answer is: "Uni-tonal Nonaphonic Bi-Modality." Covering topics including Nonaphonic, Tri-Tonal, Bi-Modal Systems, Hendecaphonic and Dodecaphonic Systems, and Dodecaphonic Tonality and Functionality, the book is divided into two parts and spans 25 chapters.
Book Synopsis Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition by : George Perle
Download or read book Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-07-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge, in twentieth-century music, to the normative status of triadic tonality is one of the most far-reaching and extreme revolutions that the history of music has known. In his classic work, Twelve-Tone Tonality, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. According to Perle, these elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters. Some of these are "postscripts" to earlier chapters, clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment. Errors discovered in the original edition have been corrected. - Jacket flap.
Book Synopsis Music and Twentieth-century Tonality by : Paolo Susanni
Download or read book Music and Twentieth-century Tonality written by Paolo Susanni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple, clear, and systematic manner to promote an easily accessible and global understanding of this music. Since the chromatic scale is the primary source for the pitch materials of 20th-century music, common sub-collections of the various modes and interval cycles serve as the basis for their mutual transformation. It is precisely this peculiarity of the non-serialized twelve-tone system that allows for an array of pitch relations and modal techniques hitherto perceived difficult if not impossible to analyze. Susanni and Antokoletz present the principles, concepts, and materials employed for analysis using a unique theoretic-analytical approach to the new musical language. The book contains a large number of original analyses that explore a host of composers including Ives, Stravinsky, Bartók, Messiaen, Cage, Debussy, Copland, and many more, providing insight into the music of the tonal revolution of the twentieth century and contributing an important perspective to how music works in general.
Book Synopsis Serial Composition and Atonality by : George Perle
Download or read book Serial Composition and Atonality written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In the analysis of specific compositions there is first and last of all a concern with the musical surface—an attempt to trace connections and distinctions there before offering any deeper-level constructions, and to offer none where their effects are not obvious on more immediate levels of musical experience. In this sixth edition of the book, George Perle employs the new and more consistent terminology for the identification of transpositional levels of twelve-tone sets that he first proposed in Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977).
Book Synopsis The Septonate and the Centralization of the Tonal System by : Julius Klauser
Download or read book The Septonate and the Centralization of the Tonal System written by Julius Klauser and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harrison Kerr by : Randy B. Kohlenberg
Download or read book Harrison Kerr written by Randy B. Kohlenberg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison Kerr (1897-1978) is probably best known for his efforts to foster an understanding of twentieth-century American music, but his achievements as a teacher, administrator, and composer are equally important. The present volume presents an extensive biography of Kerr and detailed analyses of three representative musical works with explanations.
Book Synopsis The Languages of Western Tonality by : Eytan Agmon
Download or read book The Languages of Western Tonality written by Eytan Agmon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tonal music, from a historical perspective, is far from homogenous; yet an enduring feature is a background "diatonic" system of exactly seven notes orderable cyclically by fifth. What is the source of the durability of the diatonic system, the octave of which is representable in terms of two particular integers, namely 12 and 7? And how is this durability consistent with the equally remarkable variety of musical styles — or languages — that the history of Western tonal music has taught us exist? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Using mathematical tools to describe and explain the Western musical system as a highly sophisticated communication system, this theoretical, historical, and cognitive study is unprecedented in scope and depth. The author engages in intense dialogue with 1000 years of music-theoretical thinking, offering answers to some of the most enduring questions concerning Western tonality. The book is divided into two main parts, both governed by the communicative premise. Part I studies proto-tonality, the background system of notes prior to the selection of a privileged note known as "final." After some preliminaries that concern consonance and chromaticism, Part II begins with the notion "mode." A mode is "dyadic" or "triadic," depending on its "nucleus." Further, a "key" is a special type of "semi-key" which is a special type of mode. Different combinations of these categories account for tonal variety. Ninth-century music, for example, is a tonal language of dyadic modes, while seventeenth-century music is a language of triadic semi-keys. While portions of the book are characterized by abstraction and formal rigor, more suitable for expert readers, it will also be of value to anyone intrigued by the tonal phenomenon at large, including music theorists, musicologists, and music-cognition researchers. The content is supported by a general index, a list of definitions, a list of notation used, and two appendices providing the basic mathematical background.
Book Synopsis A Theory of Evolving Tonality by : Joseph Yasser
Download or read book A Theory of Evolving Tonality written by Joseph Yasser and published by New York : American Library of Musicology. This book was released on 1932 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mission and Message of Music by : Michal Smoira Cohn
Download or read book The Mission and Message of Music written by Michal Smoira Cohn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an English re-writing of the original Hebrew edition, published by Dvir Publishing House, in 2007, and written jointly with the late Herzl Shmueli. The book probes into the nature and quality of the beauty and meaning of music. According to the authors, these have to be found within the musical phenomena themselves and serve as the basis for the aesthetical criteria of all music. They maintain that similar to every linguistic phenomena, music is a message in sound that moves, within a certain time limit, from musician to listener. The musician on the one hand, and the listener on the other, are the two focal points between which the musical process takes place. Music is thus a covenant between the musician and the listener. One sends the musical message, the other takes it up and internalizes it; one is the initiator, the other proves the successful outcome of the artistic process. The book is intended for music connoisseurs and for all who are intersted in artistic thought, in general, and in musical thoughts in particular. Every professional concept that had to be included in the book is duly explained, so that any interested reader is able to broaden the scope of his/her outlook.
Book Synopsis Schoenberg and the Twelve-tone Technique by : Marlene Joyce Arnold
Download or read book Schoenberg and the Twelve-tone Technique written by Marlene Joyce Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the weakening of the tonal system at the end of the nineteenth century came experiments with new systems such as multitonality, polytonality, neomodality, and atonality. The outstanding technique in atonality was the development of the twelve-tone system which uses the twelve tones of the chromatic scale in a specific order designed by the composer with variations derived from the retrograde, inversion, retrograde inversion or transpotitions of the original form. The composer usually considered the originator of the twelve-tone technique is Arnold Schoenberg. The beginnings and subsequent development of the technique may be traced i nhis works. He reactivated the acquisitions of the music of the past, was brought to a gradual suspension of the tonal system and thus, to the new twelve-tone system, which, organized in his hands, became the most radical innovation of modern music. Two of this best known and most ardent pupils were Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Berg's works are usually considered a link between Schoenberg's work and the past while Webern's works show a concern with the future possibilities of the twelve-tone system.
Book Synopsis Tonality Since 1950 by : Felix Wörner
Download or read book Tonality Since 1950 written by Felix Wörner and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tonality Since 1950 documents the debate surrounding one of the most basic technical and artistic resources of music in the later 20th century. The flourishing of tonality - a return to key, pitch center, and consonance - in recent decades has undermined received views of its disintegration or collapse ca. 1910, intensifying the discussion of music's acoustical-theoretical bases, and of its broader cultural and metaphysical meanings. While historians of 20th-century music have often marginalized tonal practices, the present volume offers a new emphasis on emergent historical continuities. Musicians as diverse as Hindemith, the Beatles, Reich, and Saariaho have approached tonality from many different angles: as a figure of nostalgic longing, or as a universal law; as a quoted artefact of music's sedimented stylistic past, or as a timeless harmonic resource. Essays by 15 leading researchers cover a wide repertoire of concert and pop/rock music composed in Europe and America over the past half-century.
Book Synopsis Tonality in Western Culture by : Richard Norton
Download or read book Tonality in Western Culture written by Richard Norton and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book initiates "the first critical appraisal of the whole of Western tonal consciousness, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to the latest popular song." While tonality has been unwittingly championed as the product of the bourgeois age in Europe and America from 1600 to 1900, Norton states, key-centered music is understood here merely to exhibit components of an encompassing sonic expressivity as durable as any language. The author analyzes fundamental components of Western tonal phenomena that have persisted in music from ancient Jewish cantillation to the so-called atonal procedures of the Schoenberg school and beyond. Norton isolates the role of traditional music theory in the creation of models that attempted to explain tonality solely in terms of the concretized and limited objectivity of the musical score. The author evaluates and discards those features of logical positivism, scientific empiricism, idealism, and vitalism that in his view have encumbered virtually all speculation on tonality. With this negation, his aim is to restore the composer as a creator subject to his own sonic object. The book's approach is particularly indebted to the thought of Theodor Adorno, the member of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists that Norton finds most capable of suggesting an authentic dialectic of tonality. The author interprets the activities of both theorists and composers from various periods within the context of their mutual and conflicting historical interests. Ranging through the fields of physics, acoustics, psychology, sociology, economics, and historical musicology and criticism, Norton demonstrates that the cognitive abilities and disabilities of humans as tonal hearers form a necessary ground for understanding the remarkable vitality of tonality as historical process. Current theories of human tonal activity are hopelessly limited, the book concludes, however self-preserving they have become through the sanction of academic respectability. In short, tonal science, as it is commonly practiced, is not tonal truth. In its place the author urges a thoroughgoing critique of the language and methodology of contemporary tonal speculation, an abandonment of its confining sphere of interest, and a new and liberating approach to tonal consciousness that incorporates all relevant data of human sonic cognition. This approach assumes that tonality is not merely the result of the physical unfolding of natural appearance--the overtone series that so enchanted Rameau, Schenker, Hindemith, and others--and the submission of composers to its assumed authority. Tonality is, rather, Norton contends, a decision made against the chaos of pitch and for the human potential to create works of music that speak with integrity and beauty, that as aesthetic creations neither lag behind nor rush ahead of human enjoyment and understanding.
Book Synopsis Musical Creativity by : Guerino Mazzola
Download or read book Musical Creativity written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes. After a thorough introduction, the book offers a first practical part with a detailed tutorial for students in composition and improvisation, using musical instruments and music software. The second, theoretical part deals with historical, actual, and new principles of creative processes in music, based on the results and methods developed in the first author’s book Topos of Music and referring to semiotics, predicative objects, topos theory, and object-oriented concept architectures. The third part of the book details four case studies in musical creativity, including an analysis of the six variations of Beethoven's sonata op. 109, a discussion of the creative process in a CD coproduced in 2011 by the first and second authors, a recomposition of Boulez’s "Structures pour deux pianos" using the Rubato software module BigBang developed by the third author, and the Escher theorem from mathematical gesture theory in music. This is both a textbook addressed to undergraduate and graduate students of music composition and improvisation, and also a state-of-the-art survey addressed to researchers in creativity studies and music technology. The book contains summaries and end-of-chapter questions, and the authors have used the book as the main reference to teach an undergraduate creativity studies program and also to teach composition. The text is supported throughout with musical score examples.
Book Synopsis Classical Musicians Speak Out as a New Century Begins by : Sidney Bertram Smith
Download or read book Classical Musicians Speak Out as a New Century Begins written by Sidney Bertram Smith and published by Melrose Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Classical Musicians Speak Out as a New Century Begins', Sidney Smith presents a unique snapshot of eminent musical opinion, clearly illustrating what musicians and composers are thinking at the beginning of the twenty first century. Meticulously researched, Smith draws his conclusions from an host of internationally renowned figures.
Book Synopsis Serial Composition and Atonality by : George Perle
Download or read book Serial Composition and Atonality written by George Perle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right Notes written by George Perle and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Perle has divided this collection into four parts Composers and Works (Bartïk Berg Schoenberg Scriabin and Webern Towards a New Musical Language Some Critical Appraisals of Contemporary Music Theory and On Listening to Modern Music. These 23 articles reviews lectures and speeches represent the best of 50 years of musical thought and insight by one of the keenest musical minds of this century. Sharing this particular composer's point of view leads the reader to an understanding of the linear progression(not easily apparent) from the last century to the next.
Book Synopsis Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process by : Henry Burnett
Download or read book Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process written by Henry Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Tonality and Systems in the Mid- to Late-Eighteenth Century: The Classical Ideal -- I. The Development of the Early Symphony: Vivaldi and the Ripieno Concerto, G.B. Sammartini -- II. Viennese Symphonists of the Mid-Eighteenth Century: G.C. Wagenseil and G.M. Monn -- III. Joseph Haydn and the Sonata Form: Definitions and Compositional Design Elements -- IV. Joseph Haydn and the Developmental Process: Selected Compositions -- V. Alternative Design Elements in Sonata-Form Movements: J.C. Bach and W.A. Mozart -- 6 Nineteenth-Century Approaches to Eleven-Pitch-Class Systems Derived from the Viennese Classical Tradition -- I. Beethoven, Sonata Form, the Minor Mode, and Chromatic Development at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- II. Eleven-Pitch-Class Systems in the Music of Nineteenth-Century Romantic Composers: Mode Mixture and System Shifts as Pre-Compositional Determinants in Schubert's String Quintet in C major op. 163 -- 7 Eleven-Pitch-Class Systems in the Music of Mid-to Late-Nineteenth-Century Romantic Composers -- I. Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor op. 49, First Movement -- II. Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E♭ op. 44, First Movement -- III. Johannes Brahms: The Sextets, op. 18 in B♭ and op. 36 in G -- IV. Pyotr Il'yich Chaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 in F minor op. 36, First Movement -- 8 The Romantic Avant Garde and the Rumblings of Modernism -- I. Liszt and Debussy: The Romantic. Avant Garde and its Manifestation in Impressionism -- II. Debussy and Chromaticism at the Turn of the Century -- III. Chopin and Debussy Revisit J.S. Bach -- IV. Schoenberg and the Expressionist Movement -- Bibliography -- Index
