Teaching and understanding contemporary piano music / Ellen Thompson.
| Author/creator | Thompson, Ellen |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | San Diego, CA : Kjos West, ©1976. |
| Description | 224 pages : music ; 31 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Chapter 1: Melody. Scale resources ; Pitch characteristics -- Chapter 2: Rhythm and meter. Shifted accents ; Asymmetric meters and divisions ; Changing and alternating meters ; Prose rhythms ; Polymeters ; Ostinato and pedal point ; Pulsating rhythm -- Chapter 3: Harmony. Tertian ; Non-tertian ; Melodic doubling ; Bichords (polychords) ; "Wrong-note" chords ; Serial chords ; Harmonics ; Percussive use of harmony -- Chapter 4: Tonality and modality. Modality ; Bitonality and bimodality ; Pandiatonicism ; Shifted tonality ; Expanded tonality ; Atonality (free and serial) -- Chapter 5: Texture. Dissonant counterpoint ; Contrapuntal procedures ; Unison writing ; Widely spaced sonorities and extreme registers ; Pointillism and fragmentation -- Chapter 6: Form. Asymmetric and irregular-length phrases ; Cadences ; Contrapuntal forms ; Other forms -- Chapter 7: Jazz -- Chapter 8: Innovations. New notational procedures ; Aleatoric music ; Innovative piano effects -- Glossary of terms ; The tonal period and its gradual breakdown. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 195-200. |
| Bibliography note | "Reference list of selected contemporary piano music": pages 213-220. |
| LCCN | 76024574 |
| ISBN | 091084206X |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML707.T5 T4 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |