Basic Formal Structures in Music
Title | Basic Formal Structures in Music PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hendricks Fontaine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Musical form |
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"This text is intended primarily for students of college level who have had at least one year of theory: in most colleges and universities this means two semesters or the equivalent. A modest knowledge of harmony, extending to the more common altered chords such as augmented sixths and diminished sevenths, is assumed. Also, the student should understand the forms and functions of ordinary cadences. An attempt has been made here to bring some order to the study of subphrase units, especially motives. This and the subsequent study of phrases and phrase-groups are the two most important steps in any approach to musical form. They are fundamental to all styles and types of music. The story of the elementary forms and how they grew is a sort of capsule history of music. The subject is pursued in this book beyond the traditional classical forms in order to investigate certain adaptations of these old forms. Some of the miscellaneous studies in Chapter 12 are concerned with definite hybrid types. Great emphasis is placed on student participation. Modest opportunities for original composition (a most valuable instructional techniqe) are included as optional assignments in the early chapters. The instructor can, at his discretion, add to these or omit them. The making of graphs compels a student to analyze the formal details of a composition and reduce them to a visible form on paper in a manner permitting easy correction. Here, again, the instructor can determine subject matter for such analyses according to his own preferences and experience. The final chapter devoted to recent music touches on what appears to the author to be the more important advances or developments in compositional techniques affecting form in our time." --Preface.
Basic Formal Structures in Music
Title | Basic Formal Structures in Music PDF eBook |
Author | Fontane |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2000 |
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Basic Forms in Music
Title | Basic Forms in Music PDF eBook |
Author | Charles W. Walton |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2005-05-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1457408228 |
Musical forms are illustrated through representative literature of all periods. Includes complete examples as well as suggestions for further listening and analytical experiences.
Musical Structure and Design
Title | Musical Structure and Design PDF eBook |
Author | Cedric T. Davie |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2014-05-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486172767 |
Clear, elementary explanation of basic forms, Renaissance to 1900, with many works analyzed. Nature and function of concerto, sonata, etc., clarified with nonmusical analogies; illustrated in detailed analysis of specific piece of music.
Musical Form and Analysis
Title | Musical Form and Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Spring |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1478611731 |
Understanding the way music unfolds to the listener is a major key for unlocking the secrets of the composer’s art. Musical Form and Analysis, highly regarded and widely used for two decades, provides a balanced theoretical and philosophical approach that helps upper-level undergraduate music majors understand the structures and constructions of major musical forms. Spring and Hutcheson present all of the standard topics expected in such a text, but their approach offers a unique conceptual thrust that takes readers beyond mere analytical terminology and facts. Evocative rather than encyclopedic, the text is organized around three elements at work at all levels of music: time, pattern, and proportion. Well-chosen examples and direct, well-crafted assignments reinforce techniques. A 140-page anthology of music for in-depth analysis provides a wide range of carefully selected works.
Classical Form
Title | Classical Form PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Caplin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2000-12-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199881758 |
Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides a broad set of principles and a comprehensive methodology for the analysis of classical form, from individual ideas, phrases, and themes to the large-scale organization of complete movements. It emphasizes the notion of formal function, that is, the specific role a given formal unit plays in the structural organization of a classical work.
Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre
Title | Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre PDF eBook |
Author | William Earl Caplin |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9058678229 |
The tone of the debates among Caplin, Hepokoski, and Webster (in the form of comments on each author''s essay and then responses to the comments), though tactful, is obliquely blunt and tendentious; like the best of tennis pros, each author strives to serve an ace and defends the net against a passing shot (with Caplin, the ace is for formal function; with Hepokoski for Sonata Theory and dialogic form; with Webster for multivalent analysis). But we can trust that this provocative exchange will thoroughly invigorate discussions about classical form and encourage diverse approaches to its analys.