A Geometry of Music

A Geometry of Music
Author: Dmitri Tymoczko
Publsiher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780195336672

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In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz.

A Geometry of Music

A Geometry of Music
Author: Dmitri Tymoczko
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-12-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199714355

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How is the Beatles' "Help!" similar to Stravinsky's "Dance of the Adolescents?" How does Radiohead's "Just" relate to the improvisations of Bill Evans? And how do Chopin's works exploit the non-Euclidean geometry of musical chords? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko describes a new framework for thinking about music that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from medieval polyphony to contemporary rock. Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, and shows how these features recur throughout the history of Western music. In the process he sheds new light on an age-old question: what makes music sound good? A Geometry of Music provides an accessible introduction to Tymoczko's revolutionary geometrical approach to music theory. The book shows how to construct simple diagrams representing relationships among familiar chords and scales, giving readers the tools to translate between the musical and visual realms and revealing surprising degrees of structure in otherwise hard-to-understand pieces. Tymoczko uses this theoretical foundation to retell the history of Western music from the eleventh century to the present day. Arguing that traditional histories focus too narrowly on the "common practice" period from 1680-1850, he proposes instead that Western music comprises an extended common practice stretching from the late middle ages to the present. He discusses a host of familiar pieces by a wide range of composers, from Bach to the Beatles, Mozart to Miles Davis, and many in between. A Geometry of Music is accessible to a range of readers, from undergraduate music majors to scientists and mathematicians with an interest in music. Defining its terms along the way, it presupposes no special mathematical background and only a basic familiarity with Western music theory. The book also contains exercises designed to reinforce and extend readers' understanding, along with a series of appendices that explore the technical details of this exciting new theory.

Harmony Counterpoint Partimento

Harmony  Counterpoint  Partimento
Author: Job IJzerman
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780190695002

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A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios. A textbook in three parts, the package includes: · the hardcopy text, providing essential stylistic and technical information and repertoire discussion; · an online workbook with a full range of exercises, including partimenti by Fenaroli, Sala, and others, along with arrangements of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century compositions; · an online instructor's manual providing additional information and realizations of all exercises. Linking theoretical knowledge with aural perception and aesthetic experience, the exercises encompass various activities, such as singing, playing, improvising, and notation, which challenge and develop the student's harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic imagination. Covering the common-practice period (Corelli to Brahms), Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is a core component of practice-oriented training of musicianship skills, in conjunction with solfeggio, analysis, and modal or tonal counterpoint.

Harmony Through Melody

Harmony Through Melody
Author: Charles Horton,David A. Byrne,Lawrence Ritchey
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781538121481

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Harmony Through Melody:The Interaction of Melody, Counterpoint, and Harmony in Western Music, Second Edition offers a robust, composition-based approach to tonal music theory, ranging from early modality to recent film and popular music. Charles Horton, David A. Byrne, and Lawrence Ritchey develop techniques and strategies for exploring the fundamental interaction of melody and counterpoint with harmony, and provide students with opportunities to creatively express what they have learned in the writing and analysis of short passages and complete pieces in historical styles. This second edition contains additional examples from the standard literature, film music, and popular song, and features new assignments involving late nineteenth-century chromatic practice. The textbook present a step-by-step method for the composition and analysis of short passages and complete pieces, with more than 1400 musical examples drawn from a variety of styles and genres, plus classroom-tested examples for study and suggested assignments at the end of each chapter. The second edition has an online companion website (textbooks.rowman.com/horton2e) featuring: A student workbook with more than 260 assignments for individual work and classroom use Audio links to 315 newly-recorded live performances of model compositions and fully realized settings An instructor’s manual with guidelines for evaluation of assignments, additional repertoire for in-class analysis and assignments, sample syllabi, and other useful information is also available. Please email [email protected] for more information.

Four star sight reading and ear tests music daily exercises for piano students

Four star sight reading and ear tests  music    daily exercises for piano students
Author: Boris Berlin,Andrew Markow
Publsiher: Mississauga, Ont. : F. Harris Music
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2002
Genre: Ear training
ISBN: 0887977995

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Book 5 includes an introduction of ornaments to sight-reading exercises and weekly tests, original compositions and excerpts from standard repertoire, and two-part and chorale textures.

Harmony and Counterpoint

Harmony and Counterpoint
Author: Bell Yung,Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
Publsiher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804726580

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This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.

Counterpoint in Composition

Counterpoint in Composition
Author: Felix Salzer,Carl Schachter
Publsiher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1989
Genre: Composition (Music)
ISBN: 9780231070393

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A Student s Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint

A Student s Guide to Harmony and Counterpoint
Author: Hugh Benham
Publsiher: Rhinegold Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Counterpoint
ISBN: 9781904226314

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