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Understanding post-tonal music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roig-Francolí, Miguel A., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : McGraw-Hill, [2008]
Subjects:
Music > 20th century > Analysis, appreciation.
Music theory > History > 20th century.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • An overview of twentieth-century compositional styles
  • Pitch centricity and composition with motivic cells
  • Pitch centricity and symmetry
  • Introduction to pitch-class set theory
  • Analyzing atonal music
  • Drawing on (and reinterpreting) the past
  • And inventing the future
  • Twelve-tone music I : an introduction
  • Twelve-tone music II : invariance, symmetry, and combinatoriality
  • Serialism : developments after 1945
  • Expanding the limits of musical temporality
  • Aleatory music, sound mass, and beyond
  • Where past and future meet
  • Simplifying means
  • Into the twenty-first century.