Musical Form And Transformation

Author : David Lewin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199890200

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Musical Form and Transformation by David Lewin Pdf

Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his earlier, innovative Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations to the varied repertoire of the twentieth century in this stimulating and illustrative book. Analyzing the diverse compositions of four canonical composers--Simbolo from Dallapiccola's Quaderno musicale di Annalibera ; Stockhausen's Klavierstuck III ; Webern's Op. 10, No. 4; and Debussy's Feux d'articifice --Lewin brings forth structures which he calls "transformational networks" to reveal interesting and suggestive aspects of the music. In this complementary work, Lewin stimulates thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring. Musical Form and Transformation , first published in 1993 by Yale University Press, was the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.

Author : David Lewin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300056869

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Musical Form and Transformation by David Lewin Pdf

Author : David Lewin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199759941

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Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations by David Lewin Pdf

Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations is by far the most significant contribution to the field of systematic music theory in the last half-century, generating the framework for the "transformational theory" movement.

Author : Joseph N. Straus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521548187

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The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Joseph N. Straus Pdf

This book is the first to study the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, widely considered to be the most important American woman composer of this century. Indeed, it is the first full-length analytical study of the music of any woman composer. The book contains extensive technical descriptions of Ruth Crawford Seeger's music, and also considers her in relation to her contemporaries and to the history of women and music.

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107127210

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Transformations of Musical Modernism by Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson Pdf

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Author : Raphael Eric Atlas,Michael Cherlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008693801

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Musical Transformation and Musical Intuition by Raphael Eric Atlas,Michael Cherlin Pdf

Author : Steven Rings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199874682

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Tonality and Transformation by Steven Rings Pdf

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 familiar tonal qualities to sensations of directedness and attraction. In the process, Rings introduces a host of new analytical techniques for the study of the tonal repertory, demonstrating their application in vivid interpretive set pieces on music from Bach to Mahler. The analyses place the book's novel techniques in dialogue with existing tonal methodologies, such as Schenkerian theory, avoiding partisan debate in favor of a methodologically careful, pluralistic approach. Rings also engages neo-Riemannian theory-a popular branch of transformational thought focused on chromatic harmony-reanimating its basic operations with tonal dynamism and bringing them into closer rapprochement with traditional tonal concepts. Written in a direct and engaging style, with lively prose and plain-English descriptions of all technical ideas, Tonality and Transformation balances theoretical substance with accessibility: it will appeal to both specialists and non-specialists. It is a particularly attractive volume for those new to transformational theory: in addition to its original theoretical content, the book offers an excellent introduction to transformational thought, including a chapter that outlines the theory's conceptual foundations and formal apparatus, as well as a glossary of common technical terms. A contribution to our understanding of tonal phenomenology and a landmark in the analytical application of transformational techniques, Tonality and Transformation is an indispensible work of music theory.

Author : Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198032175

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Conceptualizing Music by Lawrence M. Zbikowski Pdf

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization. The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy. The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.

Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107163195

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The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner by Steven Vande Moortele Pdf

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Author : Dora A. Hanninen
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580461948

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A Theory of Music Analysis by Dora A. Hanninen Pdf

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. Dora A. Hanninen is professor of music theory at the University of Maryland. She received the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Author : Janet Schmalfeldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190656126

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In the Process of Becoming by Janet Schmalfeldt Pdf

With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for Adorno's and Dahlhaus's concept of form as process arise in the Athenäum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel and in the Encyclopaedia Logic of Hegel. The metaphor common to all these sources is the notion of becoming; it is the idea of form coming into being that this study explores in respect to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. A critical assessment of Dahlhaus's preoccupation with the opening of Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata serves as the author's starting point for the translation of philosophical ideas into music-analytical terms-ones that encourage listening "both forward and backward," as Adorno has recommended. Thanks to the ever-growing familiarity of late eighteenth-century audiences with formal conventions, composers could increasingly trust that performers and listeners would be responsive to striking formal transformations. The author's analytic method strives to capture the dynamic, quasi-narrative nature of such transformations, rather than only their end results. This experiential approach to the perception of form invites listeners and especially performers to participate in the interpretation of processes by which, for example, a brooding introduction-like opening must inevitably become the essential main theme in Schubert's Sonata, Op. 42, or in which tremendous formal expansions in movements by Mendelssohn offer a dazzling opportunity for multiple retrospective reinterpretations. Above all, In the Process of Becoming proposes new ways of hearing beloved works of the romantic generation as representative of their striving for novel, intensely self-reflective modes of communication.

Author : Julian Hook,Associate Professor of Music Theory Julian Hook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190246013

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Exploring Musical Spaces by Julian Hook,Associate Professor of Music Theory Julian Hook Pdf

Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number of simple geometric models--the first examples of the musical spaces of the book's title--depicting relationships among musical entities of various kinds such as notes, chords, scales, or rhythmic values. These spaces take many forms and become a unifying thread in initiating readers into several areas of active recent scholarship, including transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, geometric music theory, diatonic theory, and scale theory. Concepts and techniques from mathematical set theory, graph theory, group theory, geometry, and topology are introduced as needed to address musical questions. Musical examples ranging from Bach to the late twentieth century keep the underlying musical motivations close at hand. The book includes hundreds of figures to aid in visualizing the structure of the spaces, as well as exercises offering readers hands-on practice with a diverse assortment of concepts and techniques.

Author : Jack Moser Douthett,Martha M. Hyde,Charles J. Smith
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1580462669

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Music Theory and Mathematics by Jack Moser Douthett,Martha M. Hyde,Charles J. Smith Pdf

Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today. The essays in Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations define the state of mathematically oriented music theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The volume includes essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today. The essays constitute a close-knit body of work -- a family in the sense of tracing their descentfrom a few key breakthroughs by John Clough, David Lewin, and Richard Cohn in the 1980s and 1990s. They are integrated by the ongoing dialogue they conduct with one another. The editors are Jack Douthett, a mathematician and music theorist who collaborated extensively with Clough; Martha M. Hyde, a distinguished scholar of twentieth-century music; and Charles J. Smith, a specialist in tonal theory. The contributors are all prominent scholars, teaching at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Indiana University, and the University at Buffalo. Six of them (Clampitt, Clough, Cohn, Douthett, Hook, and Smith) have received the Society for Music Theory's prestigious PublicationAward, and one (Hyde) has received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. The collection includes the last paper written by Clough before his death, as well as the last paper written by David Lewin, an important music theorist also recently deceased. Contributors: David Clampitt, John Clough, Richard Cohn, Jack Douthett, Nora Engebretsen, Julian Hook, Martha Hyde, Timothy Johnson, Jon Kochavi, David Lewin, Charles J. Smith, and Stephen Soderberg.

Author : Donald P. Pazel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030974725

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Music Representation and Transformation in Software by Donald P. Pazel Pdf

This book takes the reader on a journey through music concepts in an organized approach that develops music essentials from the concepts of tone, pitch, and time, through notes, intervals, chords, and scores while at the same time interpreting these elements as software artifacts. Close attention is paid to the organization of and relationships amongst these concepts and their representation as Python classes and objects, to learn about music from a software design viewpoint. The first part of the book focuses on software representation of the main elements found in music theory. Its objective is to provide direction to students on how to build a music software model from basic concepts and grow towards more complex concepts. Chapter by chapter, music concepts are introduced, and each is broken apart into related data properties and methods with the goal that by the end of this section, the reader will have developed a relatively complete library of music elements in software. The second part takes on the task of applying that foundation to the subject of “music transformations”. The focus is on localized transformations, that is, transformations isolated to a few measures. After a general introduction, the discussion includes topics of pitch assignment, key change, melodic inversion, melodic shaping, harmonic transcription, retrograde, melodic search and dilation. This textbook is designed as a principal or supplemental source for computer science, software engineering, and programming courses. It can also be used as a main textbook for advanced computer music courses or electronic music courses. Computer music software professionals interested in learning how to model the complexities of music theory artifacts, or music students who want to learn advanced programming techniques in their domain will also find the book helpful.

Author : Jørgen Bruhn,Asun López-Varela Azcárate,Miriam de Paiva Vieira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031283222

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The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality by Jørgen Bruhn,Asun López-Varela Azcárate,Miriam de Paiva Vieira Pdf

This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena. Section I offers accounts of the development of the field of intermediality - its histories, theories and methods. Section II and III then explore intermedial facets of communication from ancient times until the 21st century, with discussion on a wide range of cultural and geographical settings, media types, and topics, by contributors from a diverse set of disciplines. It concludes in Section IV with an emphasis on urgent societal issues that an intermedial perspective might help understand.