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Index
Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of 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 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 Parallelism Dissonance Treatment 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 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
7 Form in Post-Tonal Music
Introduction 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
8 Imports and Allusions
Introduction Influences from the Past Influences from Folk Music, Jazz, and Rock Music from Other Cultures
Summary Music from the Chapter in Chronological Context Notes Exercises Further Reading
9 Nonserial Atonality
Introduction Characteristics of Atonal Music Pitch-Class Sets Pitch-Class Intervals Octave Equivalence, Transpositional Equivalence, and Normal Order Inversional Equivalence and Best Normal Order Prime Forms and Set Classes The Interval-Class Vector Invariance Forte Labels Subsets Aggregates More About Segmentation Set Theory in Other Contexts
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 A Sample Analysis: Sariaaho’s Lonh
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 Bibliography Index
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