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Edward Pearsall - Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice - 9780415888967 - V9780415888967
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Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice

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Description for Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice Paperback. This textbook is designed for courses on 20th century music analysis. It introduces a number of analytical tools that can provide insight into music representative of a wide range of styles and genres. Num Pages: 312 pages, 492 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 276 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 722.

Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also engaged. While many of the theoretical tools for analyzing twentieth century music have been devised to analyze atonal music, they may also provide insight into a much broader array of styles. This text capitalizes on this idea by using the theoretical devices associated with atonality to explore music inclusive ... Read more

This textbook also provides a number of analytical, compositional, and written exercises. The aural skills supplement and online aural skills trainer on the companion website allow students to use theoretical concepts as the foundation for analytical listening.

Access additional resources and online material here: http://www.twentiethcenturymusictheoryandpractice.net and https://www.motivichearing.com/.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415888967
SKU
V9780415888967
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Edward Pearsall
Edward Pearsall is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin.

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