Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2016
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195385578

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses is a comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music. The texts include program notes, letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, scholarly writings, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, publicity fliers, radio broadcasts, and liner notes.

The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis

The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis
Author: Joseph N. Straus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0197543979

"This book consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles. The works under study are taken from throughout the long twentieth century, from 1909 to the present. Within the atonal wing of modern classical music, the composers discussed here, some canonical and some not, represent a diversity of musical style, chronology, geography, gender, and race/ethnicity. Composers studied include Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Bartok, Stravinsky, Copland, Crawford-Seeger, Babbitt, Dallapiccola, Carter, Louise Talma, Hale Smith, Elisabeth Lutyens, Ursula Mamlok, Tania León, Tan Dun, Shulamit Ran, Kaija Saariaho, Joan Tower, John Adams, Sofia Gubaidulina, Thomas Adès, Caroline Shaw, Chen Yi, and Suzanne Farrin. The approach is pedagogical, in the somewhat informal style of a classroom. Musical examples and analytical videos carry the burden of the analytical argument, with relatively little prose. For each piece, the book suggests ways of making sense of the music, using basic concepts of post-tonal theory to tease out rich networks of musical relationships and reveal something of the fascination and beauty of this challenging music"--

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Author: Gerald Seaman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317646193

Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition is an annotated bibliography of all substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer. First published in 1988, this revised and expanded volume incorporates new information about the composer appearing over the last two decades, including literary publications, articles and reviews. Other sections provide a brief biographical sketch, selective discography, chronology and list of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works.

Concerto No. 6

Concerto No. 6
Author: Louis Spohr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 60
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457470974

One of the leading composers of instrumental music of the early Romantic period, Louis Spohr was a violinist, composer, and conductor. In addition to symphonic works, string quartets, and other solo and chamber music, he composed operas, operettas, and songs. There has been a trend, starting in the late 20th century, to revive his instrumental works and songs.

Exploring Musical Spaces

Exploring Musical Spaces
Author: Julian Hook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 0190246014

Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number of simple geometric models--the first examples of the musical spaces of the book's title--depicting relationships among musical entities of various kinds such as notes, chords, scales, or rhythmic values. These spaces take many forms and become a unifying thread in initiating readers into several areas of active recent scholarship, including transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, geometric music theory, diatonic theory, and scale theory. Concepts and techniques from mathematical set theory, graph theory, group theory, geometry, and topology are introduced as needed to address musical questions. Musical examples ranging from Bach to the late twentieth century keep the underlying musical motivations close at hand. The book includes hundreds of figures to aid in visualizing the structure of the spaces, as well as exercises offering readers hands-on practice with a diverse assortment of concepts and techniques.

Haydn and the Classical Variation

Haydn and the Classical Variation
Author: Elaine Rochelle Sisman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674383159

Sisman aims to demonstrate that it was Haydn's prophetic innovations that truly created the Classical variation. Her analysis reflects both the musical thinking of the Classical period and contemporary critical interests. The book offers a revaluation of t