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The Musical Language of Rock (Hardcover)
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The Musical Language of Rock (Hardcover)
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In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the
purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and
melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and
form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts
forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of
rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music
theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a
conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus
analysis to offer an innovative and insightful approach to the
genre. With examples from across a broadly defined rock idiom
encompassing everything from the Beatles to Deep Purple, Michael
Jackson to Bonnie Raitt, The Musical Language of Rock shows how
rock musicians exploit musical parameters to achieve aesthetic and
expressive goals-for example, the manipulation of expectation and
surprise, the communication of such oppositions as
continuity/closure and tension/relaxation, and the expression of
emotional states. A major innovation of the book is a
three-dimensional model of musical expression-representing valence,
energy, and tension-which proves to be a powerful tool for
characterizing songs and also for tracing expressive shifts within
them. The book includes many musical examples, with sound clips
available on the book's website. The Musical Language of Rock
presents new insights on the powerful musical mechanisms which have
made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape.
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