Materials and techniques of twentieth-century music /

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Author / Creator:Kostka, Stefan M.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1999.
Description:xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3305335
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ISBN:0139240772
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-316) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Twilight of the Tonal System
  • 2. Scale Formations in Twentieth-Century Music
  • 3. The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities
  • 4. The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading
  • 5. Harmonic Progression and Tonality
  • 6. Developments in Rhythm
  • 7. Form in Twentieth-Century Music
  • 8. Imports and Allusions
  • 9. Nonserial Atonality
  • 10. Classical Serialism
  • 11. Timbre and Texture: Acoustic
  • 12. Timbre and Texture: Electronic
  • 13. Serialism After 1945
  • 14. The Roles of Chance and Choice in Twentieth-Century Music
  • 15. Minimalism and Neoromanticism
  • Bibliography
  • Index