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A landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and
movements, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, ANTHOLOGY
FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS, International Edition offers first- and
second-year music theory students a wealth of illustrations of
chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms, plus some material for
figured-bass realization and score reading. Because this book takes
no theoretical position, it is adaptable to any theoretical
approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that
combine theory study with music literature and the history of
musical style.
Developed over many years of classroom experience by members of the
music faculty at Queens College, it offers a substantial body of
graded keyboard exercises organized by specific skills. Topics
covered include chord progressions, sequences, modulations,
realization of both figured and unfigured basses, improvisation,
and score reading. There are also special exercises in
chromaticism, as well as illustrations of musical procedures from
the literature of tonal music. A short keyboard anthology, suitable
for piano practice, transposition, and analysis, rounds out this
invaluable and versatile resource.
Displays the range and diversity of Schenkerian studies today in
fifteen essays covering music from Bach through Debussy and
Strauss. Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis is a collection of
fifteen essays dedicated to the memory of Edward Laufer, an
influential advocate of Schenker's method. The chapters are
presented in chronological order by composer, opening with Charles
Burkhart's contribution, which is presented as a letter to Edward
Laufer (written before his death), and ending with excerpts from
Stephen Slottow's 2003 interview with Laufer (in an appendix).
Whilethe unifying focus is Schenkerian analysis, there is
considerable variety in the approaches taken by the contributors.
There is also variety in the composers represented, ranging from
Bach to Debussy and Strauss. The volume thusdisplays the scope and
diversity of Schenkerian studies today. CONTRIBUTORS: Mark
Anson-Cartwright, David Beach, Matthew Brown, Charles Burkhart, L.
Poundie Burstein, Timothy L. Jackson, Roger Kamien, Leslie Kinton,
SuYin Mak, Ryan McClelland, Don McLean, Boyd Pomeroy, William
Rothstein, Frank Samarotto, Stephen Slottow, Lauri Suurpaa David
Beach is professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of
Music, University of Toronto. SuYin Mak is associate professor of
music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
When British writers Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named
Barbara Pym one of the twentieth century's most underrated authors
in a 1977 Times Literary Supplement survey, they started a Barbara
Pym revival that continued unabated in Great Britain and the United
States. Barbara Pym's delightful tales of jumble sales and parish
meetings, her ironic insights into the relationships between women
and men, have won a devoted following. Indeed she is often compared
to that most accomplished author of comedies of manners, Jane
Austen. The Pleasure of Miss Pym is a critical study of Pym as
comic writer and of the links between her life and autobiographical
writings and her fiction, written with a liveliness of style and
tone that matches Pym's own. Not only does Charles Burkhart provide
perceptive discussions of Pym's life and novels, he also
illuminates the worldview represented in her work, the unique
nature of her comedy, her religion, her place within the history of
the novel, and her penetrating insights into male-female
relationships. All of Pym's work, including the 1986 posthumous
publication, An Academic Question, is intelligently surveyed here.
Scholars of contemporary English literature will derive both
instruction and pleasure from this elegantly written study, as will
Pym's admiring readers, for whom it is also intended.
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