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Summary Table of Contents

This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to 20th-Century Music available from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism of the 1990's, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music.

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Preface

The Twilight of the Tonal System

(21)

Introduction

(1)

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Diatonic Tonal Music

(1)

Chromatic Tonal Music

(1)

Chromatic Harmony

(8)

Chromaticism and Musical Form

(2)

Suspended Tonality and Atonality

(9)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Exercises

(7)

Scale Formations in Twentieth-Century Music

(24)

Introduction

(1)

Five-Note Scales

(1)

Six-Note Scales

(3)

Seven-Note Scales: The Diatonic Modes

(3)

Other Seven-Note Scales

(1)

Eight-Note Scales

(3)

The Chromatic Scale

(1)

Microtonal Scales

(2)

Other Possibilities

(10)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Exercises

(8)

The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities

(28)

Introduction

(1)

Conventional Tertian Sonorities

(2)

Tertian Chords with Added Notes

(3)

Tertian Chords with Split Chord Members

(2)

Open-5th Chords

(1)

Quartal and Quintal Chords

(4)

Secundal Chords

(3)

Mixed-Interval Chords

(1)

Whole-Tone Chords

(1)

Polychords

(10)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Exercises

(7)

The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading

(24)

Introduction

(1)

Tonal Melody

(2)

Some New Stylistic Features of Twentieth-Century Melody

(5)

Some Aspects of Melodic Organization

(2)

Voice Leading in Twentieth-Century Music

(15)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Exercises

(5)

Harmonic Progression and Tonality

(16)

Introduction

(1)

Traditional Approaches to Harmonic Progression

(1)

New Approaches to Harmonic Progression

(2)

Nonharmonic Music

101

(1)

Establishing a Tonal Center

102

(1)

Tertian and Nontertian Pitch-Centricity

103

(2)

Polytonality

105

(3)

Atonality

108

(1)

Pandiatonicism

108

(6)

Summary

109

(1)

Notes

110

(1)

Exercises

110

(4)

Developments in Rhythm

114

(26)

Introduction

114

(1)

Syncopation

115

(1)

Written Rhythm and Perceived Rhythm

116

(1)

Changing Time Signatures

117

(1)

Nontraditional Time Signatures

118

(2)

Polymeter

120

(4)

Ametric Music

124

(4)

Added Values and Nonretrogradable Rhythms

128

(2)

Tempo Modulation and Polytempo

130

(3)

Serialized Rhythm and Isorhythm

133

(7)

Summary

135

(1)

Notes

136

(1)

Exercises

136

(4)

Form in Twentieth-Century Music

140

(17)

Introduction

140

(1)

Binary Form

141

(1)

Ternary Form

141

(4)

Rondo Forms

145

(1)

Other Part Forms

146

(1)

Sonata Form

147

(2)

Sectional Variations

149

(1)

Continuous Variations

149

(1)

Canon and Fugue

150

(2)

Proportion: The Golden Mean

152

(1)

Nonthematic Delineators of Musical Form

152

(2)

Nonorganic Approaches to Musical Form

154

(3)

Summary

154

(1)

Notes

155

(1)

Exercises

155

(2)

Imports and Allusions

157

(18)

Introduction

157

(1)

Influences From the Past

157

(7)

Influences From Folk Music, Jazz, and Rock

164

(6)

Music From Other Cultures

170

(5)

Summary

172

(1)

Notes

172

(1)

Exercises

173

(2)

Nonserial Atonality

175

(23)

Introduction

175

(1)

Characteristics of Atonal Music

176

(2)

Pitch-Class Sets

178

(1)

Octave Equivalence, Transpositional Equivalence, and Normal Order

178

(4)

Inversional Equivalence and Best Normal Order

182

(3)

Prime Forms and Set Classes

185

(1)

The Interval-Class Vector

186

(2)

Forte Labels

188

(1)

Subsets

189

(1)

Aggregates

190

(1)

More About Segmentation

191

(7)

Summary

192

(1)

Notes

192

(1)

Exercises

193

(5)

Classical Serialism

198

(24)

Introduction

198

(1)

Basic Terminology

199

(2)

The Twelve-Tone Matrix

201

(1)

A First Example

202

(2)

Analyzing a Row

204

(3)

Compositional Uses of the Row

207

(2)

Set Succession

209

(2)

Combinatoriality

211

(2)

The Analysis of Serial Music

213

(9)

Summary

214

(1)

Notes

214

(1)

Exercises

214

(8)

Timbre and Texture: Acoustic

222

(23)

Introduction

222

(1)

New Timbral Effects From Traditional Instruments

222

(1)

Wind Instruments

223

(2)

Stringed Instruments

225

(3)

Percussion Instruments

228

(3)

The Piano

231

(1)

The Voice

231

(1)

Instrumentation and Orchestration

232

(4)

Traditional Textures and Compound Textures

236

(2)

Pointillism, Stratification, and Sound-Mass

238

(1)

Texture as a Form Determinant

239

(6)

Summary

240

(1)

Notes

240

(1)

Exercises

241

(4)

Timbre and Texture: Electronic

245

(19)

Introduction

245

(1)

Concrete Music

246

(1)

The Classical Electronic Music Studio

247

(3)

Digital Synthesis

250

(3)

The Development of Midi

253

(1)

Samplers, Personal Computers, and Recent Trends in Digital Synthesis

254

(2)

Tape and Instrument, Live Performance, and Interactive Computer Music

256

(1)

Notation of Electronic Music

257

(7)

Summary

259

(1)

Notes

259

(1)

Exercises

259

(5)

Serialism After 1945

264

(20)

Introduction

264

(1)

Integral Serialism

265

(10)

Integral Serialism in Perspective

275

(1)

Other Aspects of Serialism

276

(3)

Music After Serialism

279

(5)

Summary

279

(1)

Notes

280

(1)

Exercises

280

(4)

The Roles of Chance and Choice in Twentieth-Century Music

284

(17)

Introduction

284

(1)

Chance in Composition

285

(1)

Choice in Performance

286

(2)

Some Examples of Performer Indeterminacy

288

(6)

Graphic Scores and Text Scores

294

(3)

Music on the Fringe

297

(4)

Summary

298

(1)

Notes

298

(1)

Exercises

298

(3)

Minimalism and Beyond

301

(18)

Introduction

301

(1)

Minimalism

301

(6)

Beyond Minimalism

307

(12)

Summary and Conclusion

316

(1)

Notes

316

(1)

Exercises

317

(2)

Appendix: Prime Forms, Forte Labels, and Interval-Class Vectors

319

(4)

Bibliography

323

(5)

Index

328

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