1st Edition

Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles

By Paolo Susanni, Elliott Antokoletz Copyright 2012
176 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20 th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple, clear, and systematic manner to promote an easily accessible and global understanding of this music. Since the... Read more

Introduction 1 . General Concepts 2. Interval Cycles 3. Compound Cyclic Collections 4. Inversional Symmetry and the Axis Concept 5. Modes 6. Modal/Cyclic Relationships 7. Cells

Biography

Paolo Susanni is Assistant Professor at Yasar University, Turkey.

Elliott Antokoletz is Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin.