1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132349303321

Titolo

Carbocation Chemistry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Interscience Imprint, 2004

ISBN

0-471-67865-1

Disciplina

547/.1372

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783361003321

Titolo

Understanding rock [[electronic resource] ] : essays in musical analysis / / edited by John Covach and Graeme M. Boone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-772952-5

0-19-988012-3

1-4237-4048-3

1-280-45166-1

0-19-535662-4

1-60256-076-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CovachJohn Rudolph

BooneGraeme M <1954-> (Graeme MacDonald)

Disciplina

781.66/0973

781.660973

Soggetti

Rock music - History and criticism

Rock music - Analysis, appreciation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Progressive Rock, "Close to the Edge," and the Boundaries of Style; 2 After Sundown The Beach Boys' Experimental Music; 3 Blues Transformations in the Music of Cream; 4 Joanie" Get Angry k. d. lang's Feminist Revision; 5 Swallowed by a Song Paul Simon's Crisis of Chromaticism; 6 "Little Wing" A Study in Musical Cognition; 7 Tonal and Expressive Ambiguity in "Dark Star"; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpr