Concert music, rock, and jazz since 1945 : essays and analytical studies / edited by Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Hermann.
| Other author | Marvin, Elizabeth West, 1955- editor. |
| Other author | Hermann, Richard, 1950- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Rochester, NY : University of Rochester, 1995. |
| Description | x, 449 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Eastman studies in music ; 2 Eastman studies in music ; v. 2. ^A494093 |
| Contents | Introduction / Elizabeth West Marvin, Richard Hermann -- Part I: Compositional poietics. Beyond unity: toward an understanding of musical postmodernism / Jonathan D. Kramer -- The art-science of music after two millennia / Robert Cogan -- Aspects of confluence between western art music and ethnomusicology / Robert D. Morris -- Part II: Some structuralist approaches. Twelve-tone composition and the music of Elliott Carter / Andrew Mead -- An analysis of polyrhythm in selected improvised jazz solos / Cynthia Folio -- A generalization of contour theory to diverse musical spaces: analytical applications to the music of Dallapiccola and Stockhausen / Elizabeth West Marvin -- The Beatles as composers: the genesis of Abbey Road, side two / Walter Everett -- Structural factors in the microcanonic compositions of Gyorgy Ligeti / Jane Piper Clendinning -- Part III: Insights from other disciplines. Theory, analysis, and the "problem" of minimal music / Jonathan W. Bernard -- The question of climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, Mvt. 3 / Ellie M. Hisama -- Does the song remain the same? Questions of authorship and identification in the music of Led Zeppelin / Dave Headlam -- Theories of chordal shape, aspects of linguistics, and their roles in structuring Berio's Sequenza IV for Piano / Richard Hermann -- Stylistic competencies, musical satire, and "This is Spinal Tap" / John Covach -- Music theory and the postmodern muse: an afterword / Nicholas Cook. |
| Abstract | Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer theorists); structuralist approaches, extending musical-theoretical research to new repertoires; and musical-analysis employing techniques from other disciplines. The essays in this volume present current research into a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music, and drawing on modern musical-analytical techniques to draw together the varied subjects they explore. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 94030277 |
| ISBN | 187882242X |