Aspects of twentieth-century music / [by] Richard Delone [and others] Coordinating editor, Gary E. Wittlich.

Other author DeLone, Richard, 1928-1984
Other author Wittlich, Gary E., 1934-
Format Book
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Descriptionxi, 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents Form in twentieth-century music. Concepts of form ; Sectional forms ; Developmental forms ; Variational forms ; Stratified and interpolated forms ; Open forms / Mary Wennerstrom -- Timbre and texture in twentieth-century music. Timbre ; Spacing and registration ; Predisposition towards detail in twentieth-century texture and design ; Stratification ; Textural bases: monophony, homophony, polyphony ; Timbre ; Texture and form / Richard P. Delone -- Rhythm in twentieth-century music. The nature of rhythm ; Metric structure ; Durational patterns ; Pre-compositional approaches to rhythm ; New notational practices / Allen Winold -- Melody: linear aspects of twentieth-century music. The elements of meoldy ; Melodic organization and structure ; Melodic processes in twentieth-century music / Vernon L. Kliewer -- The vertical dimension in twentieth-century music. Triads and higher tertian chords ; Non-tertian harmony ; Tone clusters ; Pitch class density ; Mixed-interval chords ; Negation of harmony / Horace Reisberg -- Sets and ordering procedures in twentieth-century music. 1.0: The twelve-note set ; 2.0: Types of twelve-note sets ; 3.0: Compositional presentations of sets ; 4.0: Simultaneous set presentation ; 5.0: Details of set successions ; 6.0: Elements of freedom in twelve-note composition ; 7.0: Ordering of other dimensions: multi-serialism ; 8.0: Pre-serial atonality / Gary E. Wittlich.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 74012401
Stock number$13.95

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