The Musical Language of Rock

This impressive book will be crucial reading for anyone interested in the theory and analysis of rock, and especially those seeking new and better ways to describe the 'aha' moments in the songs they love.

Autorentext
David Temperley is Professor of Music Theory at Eastman School of Music. He has published extensively in the fields of music cognition, music theory, and linguistics. His first book, The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures, won the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award. He is also a composer and songwriter.

Klappentext

The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music. Combining a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis, the book shows how rock songs "play" with the conventions of the style, and how this contributes to their effect and appeal.