Analytic Approaches to Twentieth century Music

Analytic Approaches to Twentieth century Music
Author: Joel Lester
Publsiher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1989
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0393957624

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Designed to introduce the reader to a variety of analytic techniques applicable to music of our century, this valuable new book is written in a straightforward, clear style and includes abundant music examples, practical exercises, and reinforcing overviews.

Teaching Approaches in Music Theory

Teaching Approaches in Music Theory
Author: Michael R. Rogers
Publsiher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0809325950

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Drawing on decades of teaching experience and the collective wisdom of dozens of the most creative theorists in the country, Michael R. Rogers's diverse survey of music theory--one of the first to comprehensively survey and evaluate the teaching styles, techniques, and materials used in theory courses--is a unique reference and research tool for teachers, theorists, secondary and postsecondary students, and for private study. This revised edition of Teaching Approaches in Music Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies features an extensive updated bibliography encompassing the years since the volume was first published in 1984. In a new preface to this edition, Rogers references advancements in the field over the past two decades, from the appearance of the first scholarly journal devoted entirely to aspects of music theory education to the emergence of electronic advances and devices that will provide a supporting, if not central, role in the teaching of music theory in the foreseeable future. With the updated information, the text continues to provide an excellent starting point for the study of music theory pedagogy. Rogers has organized the book very much like a sonata. Part one, "Background," delineates principal ideas and themes, acquaints readers with the author's views of contemporary musical theory, and includes an orientation to an eclectic range of philosophical thinking on the subject; part two, "Thinking and Listening," develops these ideas in the specific areas of mindtraining and analysis, including a chapter on ear training; and part three, "Achieving Teaching Success," recapitulates main points in alternate contexts and surroundings and discusses how they can be applied to teaching and the evaluation of design and curriculum. Teaching Approaches in Music Theory emphasizes thoughtful examination and critique of the underlying and often tacit assumptions behind textbooks, materials, and technologies. Consistently combining general methods with specific examples and both philosophical and practical reasoning, Rogers compares and contrasts pairs of concepts and teaching approaches, some mutually exclusive and some overlapping. The volume is enhanced by extensive suggested reading lists for each chapter.

Twentieth Century Chamber Music

Twentieth Century Chamber Music
Author: James McCalla
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781135887063

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Twentieth Century Chamber Music combines a chronological overview of 20th-century chamber music and the major composers in the style, with information on a wide selection of chamber works.

Materials and Techniques of Post Tonal Music

Materials and Techniques of Post Tonal Music
Author: Stefan Kostka
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317346548

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This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to post-tonal music available, from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through the present day, with discussion of such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in post-tonal music. Chapter-end exercises involve drills, analysis, composition, as well as several listening assignments.

Messiaen

Messiaen
Author: Anthony Pople
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1998-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521585384

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An examination of the popular Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen.

Understanding Contemporary Music

Understanding Contemporary Music
Author: Editorial Team of the Iscm Contemporary Music Education Campaign
Publsiher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9629962144

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This teaching kit consists of fifteen modules, each dealing with a specific topic, such as "How to listen to contemporary music," "Minimalism and simplicity," "Jazz," "Keys, scales, modes and tunings," "Experimental and avant-garde," "East-West interaction," and "Environmental music and sound installation." The teaching kit comes with two audio CDs.

Thinking In and About Music

Thinking In and About Music
Author: Zachary Bernstein
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780190949259

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Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was, at once, one of the century's foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life--"thinking in" and "thinking about" music, as he would put it--nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional ideas, and compositional concerns focused theoretical and analytical inquiry. Accordingly, this book undertakes an excavation of the sources of his theorizing as a guide to analysis of his music. In Thinking In and About Music, author Zachary Bernstein shows how Babbitt's idiosyncratic synthesis of ideas from Heinrich Schenker, analytic philosophy, and cognitive science--at least as much as more obviously relevant predecessors such as Arnold Schoenberg--provide insight into his aesthetics and compositional technique. At the same time, a close look at his music reveals a host of concerns unaccounted for in his theories, some of which seem to directly contradict theoretical expectations. Bernstein argues, therefore, that new analytical models are needed to complement those suggested by Babbitt's theories. Departing from the serial logic of most previous work on the subject--and in an attempt to discuss Babbitt's music as it is actually heard rather than just deciphered--the book brings to bear theories of gesture and embodiment, rhetoric, text setting, and temporality. The result is a richly multi-faceted look at one of the twentieth century's most fascinating musical minds.

Guidelines for College Teaching of Music Theory

Guidelines for College Teaching of Music Theory
Author: John David White,William E. Lake
Publsiher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810841290

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This text demonstrates presentation styles for developing aural, keyboard and writing skills, as well as examining the theoretical and pedagogical conventions of musical education. This revised edition, coming 20 years after publication of the first, responds to the new trends in pedagogical study, highlights the transcendence of the canon by international music styles and popular music, and takes a fresh look at the current state of American academia. It also features an additional chapter by William E. Lake on the benefits of technology in the classroom.