| Description |
viii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index. |
| Contents |
Arnold Schoenberg, Piano pieces, op. 11, no. 1 (1909) -- Anton Webern, Movements for string quartet, op. 5, no. 2 (1909) -- Alban Berg, Four songs, op. 2, no. 2, "Schlafend trägt man mich" (1910) -- Igor Stravinsky, The rite of spring, Introduction to Part one (1913) -- Igor Stravinsky, Three pieces for string quartet, no. 2 (1914) -- Arnold Schoenberg, Five piano pieces, op. 23, no. 3 (1923) -- Béla Bartók, String quartet no. 3, Prima parte (1927) -- Aaron Copland, Piano variations, Theme (1930) -- Ruth Crawford (Seeger), Diaphonic suite no. 1, first movement (1930) -- Ruth Crawford (Seeger), String quartet, first movement (1931) -- Anton Webern, Three songs, op. 25, no. 1, "Wie bin ich froh!" (1934) -- Milton Babbitt, "The widow's lament in springtime" (1951) -- Luigi Dallapiccola, Goethe Lieder, no. 2, "Die Sonne kommt!" (1953) -- Igor Stravinsky, Three Shakespeare songs, no. 2, "Music to hear" (1953) -- Louise Talma, Holy Sonnets, "La corona" (1955) -- Hale Smith, Three brevities for solo flute, no. 2 (1969) -- Elisabeth Lutyens, Two bagatelles, op. 48, no. 1 (1962) -- Igor Stravinsky, Fanfare for a new theatre (1964) -- Igor Stravinsky, Requiem canticles, "Exaudi" (1966) -- Ursula Mamlok, Panta Rhei for Piano, violin, and cello, third movement (1981) -- Elliott Carter, Riconoscenza per Gofreddo Petrassi (for solo violin) (1984) -- Tania León, Rituál (1987) -- Tan Dun, Intercourse of fire and water (for solo cello) (1996) -- Shulamit Ran, Soliloquy (for Violin, cello, and piano) (1997) -- Kaija Saariaho, Papillons (for solo cello), no. 3 (2000) -- Joan Tower, Vast antique cubes (2000) -- John Adams, On the transmigration of souls (2002) -- Sofia Gubaidulina, Reflections on the theme BACH (2002) -- Thomas Adès, The tempest, Act III, Scene 5 (2003) -- Thomas Adès, Four quarters (for string quartet), "Days" (2010) -- Caroline Shaw, Valencia (for String quartet) (2012) -- Chen Yi, Energetic duo (for two violins) (2015) -- Suzanne Farrin, "Unico spirto," from Dolce la morte (2016) -- Post-tonal primer. |
| Summary |
"This book consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles. The works under study are taken from throughout the long twentieth century, from 1909 to the present. Within the atonal wing of modern classical music, the composers discussed here, some canonical and some not, represent a diversity of musical style, chronology, geography, gender, and race/ethnicity. Composers studied include Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Bartok, Stravinsky, Copland, Crawford-Seeger, Babbitt, Dallapiccola, Carter, Louise Talma, Hale Smith, Elisabeth Lutyens, Ursula Mamlok, Tania León, Tan Dun, Shulamit Ran, Kaija Saariaho, Joan Tower, John Adams, Sofia Gubaidulina, Thomas Adès, Caroline Shaw, Chen Yi, and Suzanne Farrin. The approach is pedagogical, in the somewhat informal style of a classroom. Musical examples and analytical videos carry the burden of the analytical argument, with relatively little prose. For each piece, the book suggests ways of making sense of the music, using basic concepts of post-tonal theory to tease out rich networks of musical relationships and reveal something of the fascination and beauty of this challenging music"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 21st century -- Analysis, appreciation.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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1900-2099 |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Straus, Joseph Nathan. Art of post-tonal analysis [1.] New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 9780197544006 (DLC) 2021036262 |
| ISBN |
9780197543979 hardcover |
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0197543979 hardcover |
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9780197543986 paperback |
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0197543987 paperback |
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9780197544006 electronic publication |
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9780197544013 electronic book |
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