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Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music.
This sixth edition has been updated throughout with new musical examples, insights from the latest scholarship, and improvements to pedagogy, featuring:
An array of new examples and references to music by underrepresented composers, and examples from contemporary music
A reordering of chapters, so that concepts related to pitch-class set theory are now introduced earlier and reinforced systematically in later chapters
A revision of exercises to ensure accessibility and aid in student understanding
The accompanying online resources provide links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text, and a manual for instructors covering all of the exercises in each chapter. This edition now includes additional workbook pages as an online resource.
Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Sixth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Twilight of the Tonal System
Introduction
Diatonic Tonal Music
Chromatic Tonal Music
Some Aspects of Chromatic Harmony
Suspended Tonality and Atonality
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
2 Scale Formations in Post-Tonal Music
Introduction
Five-Note Scales
Six-Note Scales
Seven-Note Scales: The Diatonic Modes
Other Seven-Note Scales
Eight-Note Scales
The Chromatic Scale
Microtonal Scales
Scalar Transformations
Other Possibilities
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
3 The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities
Introduction
Conventional Tertian Sonorities
Tertian Chords with Added Notes
Tertian Chords with Split Chord Members
Open-5th Chords
Quartal and Quintal Chords
Pitch-Class Intervals and PCI Segments
Secundal Chords
Mixed-Interval Chords
Whole-Tone Chords
Polychords
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
4 The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading
Introduction
Some New Stylistic Features of Post-Tonal Melody
Some Aspects of Melodic Organization
Voice Leading in Post-Tonal Music
Dissonance Treatment
Tintinnabuli Technique
Aligned Interval Cycles
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
5 Harmonic Progression and Tonality
Introduction
Traditional Approaches to Harmonic Progression
New Approaches to Harmonic Progression
Establishing a Tonal Center
Tertian and Nontertian Pitch-Centricity
Polytonality
Pandiatonicism
Atonality
Nonharmonic Music
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
6 Nonserial Atonality
Introduction
Characteristics of Atonal Music
Pitch-Class Sets
Pitch-Class Intervals
Octave Equivalence, Transpositional Equivalence, and Normal Order
Inversional Equivalence, Prime Forms, and Set Classes
The Total Number of Possible Set Classes
The Interval-Class Vector
Invariance
Forte Labels
Subsets
Aggregates
More About Segmentation
Integrating Segments and Sets in Analysis
Set Theory in Other Contexts
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
7 Developments in Rhythm
Introduction
Written Rhythm and Perceived Rhythm
Changing Time Signatures
Nontraditional Time Signatures
Polymeter
Ametric Music
Added Values and Nonretrogradable Rhythms
Tempo Modulation and Polytempo
Serialized Rhythm and Isorhythm
The New Complexity
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
8 Form in Post-Tonal Music
Introduction
One-Part Form and Binary Form
Ternary Form
Rondo Forms
Other Part Forms
Sonata Form
Sectional Variations
Continuous Variations
Canon and Fugue
Proportion: The Golden Mean
Nonthematic Delineators of Musical Form
Nonorganic Approaches to Musical Form
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
9 Imports and Allusions
Introduction
Influences from the Past
Influences from Folk, Jazz, and Popular Music
Music from Other Cultures
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
10 Classical Serialism
Introduction
Basic Terminology
The Twelve-Tone Matrix
A First Example
Analyzing a Row
Compositional Uses of the Row
Row Succession
Combinatoriality
The Analysis of Serial Music
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
11 Timbre and Texture: Acoustic
Introduction
New Timbral Effects from Traditional Instruments
Wind Instruments
Stringed Instruments
Percussion Instruments
The Piano
The Voice
Instrumentation and Orchestration
Traditional Textures and Compound Textures
Pointillism, Stratification, and Sound-Mass
Spectralism
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
12 Timbre and Texture: Electronic
Introduction
Concrete Music
The Classical Electronic Music Studio
Digital Synthesis
The Development of MIDI
Samplers, Personal Computers, and Recent Trends in Digital Synthesis
Tape and Instrument, Live Performance, and Interactive Computer Music
Notation of Electronic Music
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
13 Serialism after 1945
Introduction
Integral Serialism
Integral Serialism in Perspective
Other Aspects of Serialism
Music after Serialism
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
14 The Roles of Chance and Choice in Post-Tonal Music
Introduction
Chance in Composition
Choice in Performance
Some Examples of Performer Indeterminacy
Graphic Scores and Text Scores
Music on the Fringe
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
15 Minimalism and Beyond
Introduction
Minimalism
Beyond Minimalism
Summary
Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context
Notes
Exercises
Further Reading
Appendix: Prime Forms, Forte Labels, and Interval-Class Vectors
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