Materials and structure of music / [by] William Christ [and others].

Author/creator Christ, William
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1972-1973]
Description2 volumes : music ; 25 cm
Subjects
Music theory.

Other author/creatorChrist, William, author.
Other author/creatorDeLone, Richard, 1928-1984 author.
Other author/creatorKliewer, Vernon L., author.
Other author/creatorRowell, Lewis Eugene, 1933- author.
Other author/creatorThomson, William, 1927-2019 author.
Partial contents V. 1. Basic properties and notation of tone -- Tonality -- Key, mode, and scale -- Melodic cadences -- Formal characteristics of melody: the motive and phrase -- The extended meilody -- Basic melody -- Melody: elaboration -- Two-voice combinations -- Two-voice combinations: decorative pitches -- Continuation of two-voice combinations -- Conclusion of two-voice combinations -- Three-voice combinations -- Chord structure -- Conclusion of three-voice combinations -- Homophonic textures of four voices: non-chord voices -- Tonic, dominant, and subddominant chords in root position and first inversion: dominant seventh chord -- Inversions of the dominant seventh: harmonic rhythm -- Second-inversion triads -- Ternary form: the supertonic chord -- Submediant and mediant chords: chord relationships -- Through-composed form: mutated chords, harmonic sequence -- Binary form -- Secondary dominants -- Conclusion of secondary dominants -- Tonality changes -- Procedures of tonality change.
Partial contents V. 2. Tonality schemes and form -- Rondo form -- Diatonic seventh chords (nondominant) -- Diatonic seventh chords (continued) -- Embellishing diminished chords -- Thematic development in two-voice counter-point -- Cantus firmus technique: the chorale prelude -- The Neapolitan chord -- Augmented sixth chords -- Variation forms -- Fugue -- Further details of Fugue -- Introduction to sonata-allegro form -- Further study of sonata-allegro form -- Ninth chords -- Eleventh and thirteenth chords -- The enriched tonal spectrum -- Variability of tonality and exploration of new key schemes -- Impressionism -- Impressionism (continued) -- Twenth-Century melody -- Twentieth-Century harmony --Tonality in Twentieth-Century music -- Twentieth-Century formal processes -- Glossary.
LCCN 70152713
ISBN0135603420
ISBN0135603595

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