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The musician's guide to theory and analysis
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The musician's guide to theory and analysis

Author: Jane Piper Clendinning; Elizabeth West Marvin
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : CD audio : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Piper Clendinning; Elizabeth West Marvin
ISBN: 0393976521 9780393976526 039397653X 9780393976533 0393925765 9780393925760 0393106047 9780393106046
OCLC Number: 55131527
Description: xxxi, 759, A1-116 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 3 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Contents: Pitch and pitch class --
Beat, meter, and rhythm: simple meters --
Pitch collections, scales, and major keys --
Minor keys and the diatonic modes --
Beat, meter, and rhythm: compound meters --
Pitch intervals --
Triads and seventh chords --
Intervals in action (two-voice composition) --
Melodic and rhythmic embellishment in two-voice compostion --
Notation and scoring --
Voicing chords in multiple parts: instrumentation --
The basic phrase model: tonic and dominant voice-leading --
Embellishing tones --
Chorale harmonization and figured bass --
Expanding the basic phrase: leading-tone, predominant, and 6/4 chords --
Further expansions of the basic phrase: Tonic expansions, root progressions, and the Mediant triad --
The interaction of melody and harmony: more on cadence, phrase,and melody --
Diatonic sequences --
Intensifying the dominant: secondary dominants and secondary leading tone-chords; new voice-leading chords --
Phrase rhythm and motivic analysis --
Tonicizing scale degrees other than V --
Modulation to closely related keys --
Binary and ternary forms --
Color and drama in composition: modal mixture and chromatic mediants and submediants --
Chromatic approaches to V: the Neapolitan sixth and augmented sixths --
Popular song and art song --
Variation and rondo --
Sonata-form movements --
Chromaticism --
Modes, scales, and sets --
Music analysis with sets --
Sets and set classes --
Ordered segments and serialism --
Twelve-tone rows and the row matrix --
New ways to organize rhythm, meter, and duration --
New ways to articulate musical form --
The composer's materials today.
Responsibility: Jane Piper Clendinning, Elizabeth West Marvin.

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