Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

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Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music.

This sixth edition has been updated throughout with new musical examples, insights from the latest scholarship, and improvements to pedagogy, featuring:

• An array of new examples and references to music by underrepresented composers, and examples from contemporary music
• A reordering of chapters, so that concepts related to pitch-class set theory are now introduced earlier and reinforced systematically in later chapters
• A revision of exercises to ensure accessibility and aid in student understanding The accompanying online resources provide links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text, and a manual for instructors covering all of the exercises in each chapter. This edition now includes additional workbook pages as an online resource.

Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Sixth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.

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PREFACE

1 THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

DIATONIC TONAL MUSIC

CHROMATIC TONAL MUSIC

SOME ASPECTS OF CHROMATIC HARMONY

SUSPENDED TONALITY AND ATONALITY

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

2 SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

INTRODUCTION

FIVE-NOTE SCALES

SIX-NOTE SCALES

SEVEN-NOTE SCALES: THE DIATONIC MODES

OTHER SEVEN-NOTE SCALES

EIGHT-NOTE SCALES

THE CHROMATIC SCALE

MICROTONAL SCALES

SCALAR TRANSFORMATIONS

OTHER POSSIBILITIES

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

3 THE VERTICAL DIMENSION: CHORDS AND SIMULTANEITIES

INTRODUCTION

CONVENTIONAL TERTIAN SONORITIES

TERTIAN CHORDS WITH ADDED NOTES

TERTIAN CHORDS WITH SPLIT CHORD MEMBERS

OPEN-5TH CHORDS

QUARTAL AND QUINTAL CHORDS

SECUNDAL CHORDS

MIXED-INTERVAL CHORDS

WHOLE-TONE CHORDS

POLYCHORDS

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

4 THE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION: MELODY AND VOICE LEADING

INTRODUCTION

SOME NEW STYLISTIC FEATURES OF POST-TONAL MELODY

SOME ASPECTS OF MELODIC ORGANIZATION

VOICE LEADING IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

DISSONANCE TREATMENT

TINTINNABULI TECHNIQUE

ALIGNED INTERVAL CYCLES

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

5 HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY

INTRODUCTION

TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO HARMONIC PROGRESSION

NEW APPROACHES TO HARMONIC PROGRESSION

ESTABLISHING A TONAL CENTER

TERTIAN AND NONTERTIAN PITCH-CENTRICITY

POLYTONALITY

PANDIATONICISM

ATONALITY

NONHARMONIC MUSIC

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

6 NONSERIAL ATONALITY

INTRODUCTION

CHARACTERISTICS OF ATONAL MUSIC

PITCH-CLASS SETS

PITCH-CLASS INTERVALS

OCTAVE EQUIVALENCE, TRANSPOSITIONAL EQUIVALENCE, AND NORMAL ORDER

INVERSIONAL EQUIVALENCE AND BEST NORMAL ORDER

PRIME FORMS AND SET CLASSES

THE INTERVAL-CLASS VECTOR

FORTE LABEL

SUBSETS

AGGREGATES

MORE ABOUT SEGMENTATION

INTEGRATING SETS AND SEGMENTS IN ANALYSIS

SET THEORY IN OTHER CONTEXTS

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

7 DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM

INTRODUCTION

WRITTEN RHYTHM AND PERCEIVED RHYTHM

CHANGING TIME SIGNATURES

NONTRADITIONAL TIME SIGNATURES

POLYMETER

AMETRIC MUSIC

ADDED VALUES AND NONRETROGRADABLE RHYTHMS

TEMPO MODULATION AND POLYTEMPO

SERIALIZED RHYTHM AND ISORHYTHM

THE NEW COMPLEXITY

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

8 FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

INTRODUCTION

ONE-PART FORM AND BINARY FORM

TERNARY FORM

RONDO FORMS

OTHER PART FORMS

SONATA FORM

SECTIONAL VARIATIONS

CONTINUOUS VARIATIONS

CANON AND FUGUE

PROPORTION: THE GOLDEN MEAN

NONTHEMATIC DELINEATORS OF MUSICAL FORM

NONORGANIC APPROACHES TO MUSICAL FORM

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

9 IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS

INTRODUCTION

INFLUENCES FROM THE PAST

INFLUENCES FROM FOLK MUSIC, JAZZ, AND ROCK

MUSIC FROM OTHER CULTURES

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

10 CLASSICAL SERIALISM

INTRODUCTION

BASIC TERMINOLOGY

THE TWELVE-TONE MATRIX

A FIRST EXAMPLE

ANALYZING A ROW

COMPOSITIONAL USES OF THE ROW

ROW SUCCESSION

COMBINATORIALITY

THE ANALYSIS OF SERIAL MUSIC

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

11 TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC

INTRODUCTION

NEW TIMBRAL EFFECTS FROM TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS

WIND INSTRUMENTS

STRINGED INSTRUMENTS

PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

THE PIANO

THE VOICE

INSTRUMENTATION AND ORCHESTRATION

TRADITIONAL TEXTURES AND COMPOUND TEXTURES

POINTILLISM, STRATIFICATION, AND SOUND-MASS

SPECTRALISM

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

12 TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC

INTRODUCTION

CONCRETE MUSIC

THE CLASSICAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC STUDIO

DIGITAL SYNTHESIS

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIDI

SAMPLERS, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, AND RECENT TRENDS IN DIGITAL SYNTHESIS

TAPE AND INSTRUMENT, LIVE PERFORMANCE, AND INTERACTIVE COMPUTER MUSIC

NOTATION OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

13 SERIALISM AFTER 1945

INTRODUCTION

INTEGRAL SERIALISM

INTEGRAL SERIALISM IN PERSPECTIVE

OTHER ASPECTS OF SERIALISM

MUSIC AFTER SERIALISM

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

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

INTRODUCTION

CHANCE IN COMPOSITION

CHOICE IN PERFORMANCE

SOME EXAMPLES OF PERFORMER INDETERMINACY

GRAPHIC SCORES AND TEXT SCORES

MUSIC ON THE FRINGE

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

15 MINIMALISM AND BEYOND

INTRODUCTION

MINIMALISM

BEYOND MINIMALISM

SUMMARY

MUSIC FROM THE CHAPTER IN CHRONOLOGICAL CONTEXT

NOTES

EXERCISES

APPENDIX: PRIME FORMS, FORTE

LABELS, AND INTERVAL-CLASS VECTORS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX