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5th Edition

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

By Stefan Kostka, Matthew Santa Copyright 2018

354 Pages 255 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

354 Pages 255 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

354 Pages 255 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music , Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from... Read more

Table of Contents

1. THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM

2. SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

3. THE VERTICAL DIMENSION: CHORDS AND SIMULTANEITIES

4. THE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION: MELODY AND VOICE LEADING

5. HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY

6. DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM

7. FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

8. IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS

9. NONSERIAL ATONALITY

10. CLASSICAL SERIALISM

11. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC

12. TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC

13. SERIALISM AFTER 1945

14. THE ROLES OF CHANCE AND CHOICE IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

15. MINIMALISM AND BEYOND

APPENDIX: PRIME FORMS, FORTE LABELS, AND INTERVAL-CLASS VECTORS

Author(s)

Biography

Stefan Kostka is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.

Matthew Santa is Professor of Theory and Chair of the Music Theory and Composition Area at the Texas Tech University School of Music.

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