ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|15 pages

THE TWILIGHT OF THE TONAL SYSTEM

chapter 2|25 pages

SCALE FORMATIONS IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

chapter 5|15 pages

HARMONIC PROGRESSION AND TONALITY

chapter 6|22 pages

DEVELOPMENTS IN RHYTHM

chapter 7|19 pages

FORM IN POST-TONAL MUSIC

chapter 8|21 pages

IMPORTS AND ALLUSIONS

chapter 9|25 pages

NONSERIAL ATONALITY

chapter 10|25 pages

CLASSICAL SERIALISM

chapter 11|24 pages

TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ACOUSTIC

chapter 12|20 pages

TIMBRE AND TEXTURE: ELECTRONIC

chapter 13|19 pages

SERIALISM AFTER 1945

chapter 15|20 pages

MINIMALISM AND BEYOND