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Analyzing Atonal Music

By Michiel Schuijer

Analyzing Atonal Music

By Michiel Schuijer

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For the past forty years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allen Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. It has also been the subject of sometimes furious debates between music theorists and historically oriented musicologists, debates that only helped heighten its profile. Today, as oppositions have become less clear-cut, and other analytical approaches to music are gaining prominence, the time has come for a history of pitch-class set theory, its dissemination, and its role in the reception of the music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernist composers.Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts combines thorough discussions of musical concepts with an engaging historical narrative. Pitch-class theory is treated here as part of the musical and cultural landscape of the United States. The theory's remarkable rise to authority is related to the impact of the computer on the study of music in the 1960s, and to the American university in its double role as protector of high culture and provider of mass education.
Michiel Schuijer teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on topics at the interface between music theory and historical musicology.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
330
Release Date:
2008-11-30
Publication Date:
2008-11-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580462707
ISBN13:
9781580462709
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
688 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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