| Description |
xii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-370) and indexes. |
| Contents |
An overview of twentieth-century compositional styles -- Pitch centricity and composition with motivic cells -- Pitch centricity and symmetry -- Introduction to pitch-class set theory -- Analyzing atonal music -- Drawing on (and reinterpreting) the past -- And inventing the future -- Twelve-tone music I : an introduction -- Twelve-tone music II : invariance, symmetry, and combinatoriality -- Serialism : developments after 1945 -- Expanding the limits of musical temporality -- Aleatory music, sound mass, and beyond -- Where past and future meet -- Simplifying means -- Into the twenty-first century. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music theory -- History -- 20th century.
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Music theory. |
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History. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780072936247 alkaline paper |
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007293624X alkaline paper |
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