Aspects Of Twentieth Century Music

Author : Ton de Leeuw
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789053567654

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Music of the Twentieth Century by Ton de Leeuw Pdf

Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

Author : Richard DeLone,Richard Peter DeLone
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042378211

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Aspects of Twentieth-century Music by Richard DeLone,Richard Peter DeLone Pdf

The twentieth century has seen a revolution in art music, with the great variety of conceptually opposed musical developments existing side by side. This book presents a study of this century's music from the point of view of its structure, without addressing collective styles, the mechanisms or techniques for sound manipulation, or the literature of the period. Rather, the essays in this book address questions of how form, timbre and texture, rhythm, line, chord, and ordering procedures are dealt with by twentieth-century composers in a wide variety of musical works from early to very recent examples.

Author : Eduardo de la Fuente
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136927430

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Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity by Eduardo de la Fuente Pdf

In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the ‘sacred’ in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for ‘re-enchantment’ have not completely disappeared. Through an analysis of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Cage, 'the author shows that the twentieth century composer often adopted an artistic personality akin to Max Weber’s religious types of the prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity advances a cultural sociology of modernity and shows that twentieth century musical culture often involved the adoption of ‘apocalyptic’ temporal narratives, a commitment to ‘musical revolution’, a desire to explore the limits of noise and sound, and, finally, redemption through the rediscovery of tonality. This book is essential reading for those interested in cultural sociology, sociological theory, music history, and modernity/modernism studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : OCLC:164784905

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Author : Edward Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415888950

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Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice by Edward Pearsall Pdf

Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also engaged. While many of the theoretical tools for analyzing twentieth century music have been devised to analyze atonal music, they may also provide insight into a much broader array of styles. This text capitalizes on this idea by using the theoretical devices associated with atonality to explore music inclusive of a large number of schools and contains examples by such stylistically diverse composers as Paul Hindemith, George Crumb, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, Philip Glass, Alexander Scriabin, Ernest Bloch, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Leonard Bernstein. This textbook also provides a number of analytical, compositional, and written exercises. The aural skills supplement and online aural skills trainer on the companion website allow students to use theoretical concepts as the foundation for analytical listening. Access additional resources and online material here: http: //www.twentiethcenturymusictheoryandpractice.net and https: //www.motivichearing.com/.

Author : Nicholas Cook,Anthony Pople
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521662567

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music by Nicholas Cook,Anthony Pople Pdf

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Author : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461700791

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek Pdf

This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Author : Robert P. Morgan,ROBERT C. MORGAN
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 039395272X

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Twentieth-century Music by Robert P. Morgan,ROBERT C. MORGAN Pdf

Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky

Author : Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135037307

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A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context by Elliott Antokoletz Pdf

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework. While the organization is topical, it is historical within that framework. Musical issues interwoven with political, cultural, and social conditions have had a significant impact on the course of twentieth-century musical tendencies and styles. The goal of this book is to provide a theoretic-analytical basis that will appeal to those instructors who want to incorporate into student learning an analysis of the musical works that have reflected cultural influences on the major musical phenomena of the twentieth century. Focusing on the wide variety of theoretical issues spawned by twentieth-century music, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context reflects the theoretical/analytical essence of musical structure and design.

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521016681

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Exploring Twentieth-Century Music by Arnold Whittall Pdf

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Author : David Ewen
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0709043988

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The World of Twentieth-century Music by David Ewen Pdf

A comprehensive study of modern music which explores its development from 1900 to the present day. Entries on each composer give critical consensus, a brief biography and list of works in order of composition. The author has also written The Complete Book of Classical Music.

Author : Hans-Joachim Braun
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0801868858

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Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Hans-Joachim Braun Pdf

Braun (Universitat der Bundeswehr) presents 13 contributions by scholars in two fields of history--musicology and technology. Topics include the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development, the social construction of the synthesizer, the player piano as a precursor of computer music, the musical role of airplanes and locomotives, the origins of the 45-RPM record, violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, the aesthetic challenge of sound sampling, and others. Originally published in 2000 as I Sing the Body Electric: Music and Technology in the 20th Century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Lol Henderson,Lee Stacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135929466

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Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century by Lol Henderson,Lee Stacey Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century is an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of all aspects of music in various parts of the world during the 20th century. It covers the major musical styles--concert music, jazz, pop, rock, etc., and such key genres as opera, orchestral music, be-bop, blues, country, etc. Articles on individuals provide biographical information on their life and works, and explore the contribution each has made in the field. Illustrated and fully cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century also provides Suggested Listening and Further Reading information. A good first point of reference for students, librarians, and music scholars--as well as for the general reader.

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Schirmer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019364657

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American Music in the Twentieth Century by Kyle Gann Pdf

American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures.

Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317005797

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Twentieth-Century Music and Politics by Pauline Fairclough Pdf

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.