Music: a living language

by Manoff, Tom

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Full title :Music : a living language / Tom Manoff.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1982.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 522 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm +

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0393951944, 9780393951943
oclc:ocm08052644
LC Classification:MT6.M267
Dewey Decimal:780/.1/5

Listening beyond style -- The demonstration melody -- Rhythm -- Forward potential -- The rhythmic bond -- Phrase and form -- Rhythm gives life to form -- Pitch -- Timbre, tone -- Melody and harmony -- Melody and scale -- Melodic shape -- Form, shape, and song -- Melody and motive -- Texture, monophonic and polyphonic -- Polyphonic texture -- The interplay between linear and harmonic organization -- Texture, a continuum -- The magic of the string -- Tonality -- The major, minor tonal system -- Basic principles of form -- Describing form -- The art of music, a universal perspective -- Music as a heightened experience -- Music is motion -- The ancient unity -- Song -- Universal forms affecting all music: a summary -- A living language of music -- Responding to a musical style -- The western notated tradition -- The folk-popular tradition -- Listening beyond style, a summary -- Chant, the sacred language -- From Medieval through baroque -- Notated polyphony -- The changing musical language -- Important genres -- The changing society -- Medieval and Renaissance music -- The Baroque -- The Classical-Romantic continuum -- Beethoven -- Romanticism I & II -- The modern era -- The full impa…