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A Theory of Music Analysis

By Hanninen, Dora A.

A Theory of Music Analysis Arts & Music

A Theory of Music Analysis

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This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire including Western classical music from the Baroque to the present, with potential applications to jazz and popular music, and some non-Western musics. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with precise language and a broad, flexible conceptual framework through which they can formulate and investigate questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory, with copious musical illustrations, is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2017-01-23
Publication Date:
2017-01-23
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580465897
ISBN13:
9781580465892
Weight:
873 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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