Refreshingly free of jargon and the abstruse mathematical
equations that characterize so many works of a speculative nature,
this insightful study utilizes masterworks of twentieth-century
music as the bases for discussion and analysis.
Analytic Approaches is organized into four units. The first
focuses on aspects of musical structure other than pitch, such as
rhythm, texture, timbre, form, and relationship of tonal music to
the musics of our time. Units 2 and 3 deal with pitch structure:
Unit 2 with pitch-class sets and Units 3 with serial music. Unit 4
contains a survey of music of the most recent generation.
The author admits freely that the perception of a work of art is
a personal matter. In this book, he does not pretend to teach "the"
way to listen to or to analyze contemporary music. Rather, he seeks
to lead the reader to more informed listening through an
understanding of how musical materials are used achieve both sonic
and expressive effects.
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