Twentieth-century music theory and practice / / Edward Pearsall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452990303321
• Autore: Pearsall Edward <1954-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-203-72391-0; 1-283-88889-0; 1-135-76844-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.09/04
• Soggetti: Music theory - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Scales, harmony, and referential collections -- Pitch and interval -- Sets and segmentation -- Unordered sets and their operations -- Set class analysis -- Ordered pitch sets and their operations -- Rhythm and contour -- Ordered pc-sets and rows -- Texture and sound color.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.