A guide to musical analysis

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Explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces, seeking the answers mainly in the formal and harmonic structure of individual compositions. --from vendor description.

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Full title :A guide to musical analysis / Nicholas Cook.

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Explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces, seeking the answers mainly in the formal and harmonic structure of individual compositions. --from vendor description.

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Publication Date:1992, ©1987.

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Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1992, ©1987.

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Description:376 pages : : music ; : 22 cm

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ISBN:0393962555, 9780393962550
oclc:ocm27213185
LC Classification:MT6.C775
Dewey Decimal:781

Traditional methods of analysis -- Schenkerian analysis -- Psychological approaches to analysis. What is meant by a psychological approach? ; Leonard Meyer ; Rudolph Reti -- Formal approaches to analysis. What is meant by a 'formal approach'? ; Set-theoretical analysis ; Semiotic analysis -- What does musical analysis tell us? -- Starting an analysis. Schumann, 'Auf einer Burg' (from Liederkreis) ; Canticle: song of Simeon ; Britten, 'Pan' (from Six metamorphoses after Ovid) -- Analyzing music in sonata form. Beethoven, Piano sonata op. 49 no. 2 (first movement) ; String quartet op. 18 no. 2 (first movement) ; Symphony no. 5 (first movement) ; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique (first movement) -- Analyzing serial music. Webern, Piano piece (op. posth.) ; Piano variations (first movement) ; Stravinsky, Movements for piano and orchestra, no. 4 ; Schoenberg, Piano piece op. 33a -- Some problem pieces. Chopin, Polonaise-Fantaisie ; Schoenberg, Six little piano pieces op. 19 no. 3 ; Stockhausen, Klavierstück III Stimmung.