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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Samson |
ISBN: | 0393021939 9780393021936 |
OCLC Number: | 3240273 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 242 pages : music ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Part one : Tonality, its expansion and reinterpretation -- The nineteenth-century background. Tonal expansion in the nineteenth century ; Sources of new methods ; The later music of Liszt -- The significance of Busoni. Towards atonality ; Neo-tonality -- New tonal languages. Debussy ; Bartók and Stravinsky -- Part two : Paths to atonality -- "A pull within the art". The first decade ; The second decade -- Scriabin. The early music ; The evolution of a method -- Schoenberg. The First string quartet, op. 7 and First chamber symphony, op. 9 ; The Second string quartet, op. 10 -- Berg and Webern. Berg's early songs and Piano sonata, op. 1 ; Berg's Four songs, op. 2 ; A note on Webern's tonal music -- Szymanowski. The early music ; "Impressionist" works -- Cross-currents -- Part three : Early atonality -- Concept and terminology -- Atonality and tradition. Residual tonal elements ; Traditional forms and constructive methods ; Traditional phraseology -- "Free" atonality. Form and genre ; Pitch content ; Rhythm ; Other parameters -- Rappel à ordre. Neo-tonality : a theme in Szymanowski ; The "mystic chord" : a theme in Scriabin ; Towards the twelve-note method : a theme in Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. |
Responsibility: | Jim Samson. |
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