This is a study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities to sensations of …
Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with fami…
"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their …
Theoretische analyse van de wijze waarop zeven vooraanstaande componisten uit de 18e tot en met de 20e eeuw in hun vocale werken muzikaal uitdrukking gaven aan de inhoud van de zangteksten.
The author of this text explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. The book is a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in t…
Combining many of David Lewin's articles on song and opera with chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Milton Babbitt, this collection constitutes a statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music.
The analyses collected here focus on how the music, from its small details to its large formal schemes, engages the poetic and dramatic dynamics of the works at hand, and how music and text enact each other reciprocally. A recurrent topic is the theatricality of texted music for…
Extraordinary Measures studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves. It shows that music (its composers, performers, listeners, critical tr…
