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Analyzing Atonal Music
For the past 40 years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allan Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. This text combines thorough discussions of musical concepts with an historical narrative.
Music Performance Encounters
Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research, and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a scholarly one, and a scholarly act into a performative one? These, and other related questions, form the central focus of this book, with each chapter offering a fresh perspective on a particular topic in music performance studies: improvisational traditions, historical performance practices, analysis and performance, sports psychology, cross-cultural musical interactions, and institutional challeng...
The Twenty-First Century
The author's postconstructivist aesthetic applied to poetry.
The Philosophy of Postconstructivism
Three essays from the point of view of postconstructivism.
Pieces of Tradition
Tonality continued to be a viable compositional technique well after it was claimed to have been made obsolete by novel developments around the turn of the twentieth century. The attention of music theorists understandably shifted to explaining these new approaches, and the continuation of tonal practices was not studied in general, but only in relation to individual composers. This work picks up theories of tonality where they were abandoned and develops them in light of tonal practices of the last century, focusing on common principles underlying the music of composers of both art and popular music, including Brian Wilson, Dmitri Shostakovich, Frank Martin, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Duruflé, Neil Diamond, Olivier Messiaen, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, and Xiaoyong Chen.
ZGMTH - Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 9. Jahrgang 2012
Varia 1 I. OTT: Das kompositorische Verfahren in Jean Moutons Quadrupelkanon • J. HAMER: Louis Couperins Préludes non mesurés • F. FROEBE: Zur Rekomposition eines ›französischen‹ Modellkomplexes in Bachs Pièce d’Orgue BWV 572 • L. KRÄMER: Form und Soziolekt in Schuberts Tänzen • B. SPRICK: Überlegungen zur Anfangswendung von Beethovens Streichquartett op. 130 • R. LANG: Zur pädagogischen Qualität musiktheoretischer Lehrdialoge • L. KUNKEL: Akkordstrukturen in George Gershwins Porgy and Bess • F. FROEBE / B. PETERSEN / J.P. SPRICK: XI. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) • K. BREYER: Clemens Kühn / John Leigh (Hgg.), Systeme der Musiktheori...
Jazz and Death
Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death. It looks at how fans, critics, journalists, historians, writers, the media, and musicians have narrated, mythologized, and relayed those stories. What causes the fascination of the jazz world with its deaths? What does it say about how our culture views jazz and its practitioners? Is jazz somehow a fatal culture? The narratives surrounding jazz and death cast a light on how the music and its creators are perceived. Stories of jazz musicians typically bring up different tropes, ranging from the tragic, misunderstood genius to the notion that virtuosity somehow comes at a price. Many of these narratives tend to perpetuate the gendered and racialized stereotypes that have been part of jazz’s history. In the end, the ideas that encompass jazz and death help audiences find meaning in a complex musical practice and come to grips with the passing of their revered musical heroes -- and possibly with their own mortality.
Othmar Schoeck
Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.
"Was deutsch und echt..."
This book shows nineteenth-century German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation, adding a significant perspective to discussions about Wagner’s relation to German nationalism by interpreting his esthetic endeavors as a continuation of previous campaigns for the genre’s emancipation.
Duke Ellington Studies
This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington's celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.
