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Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts

Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts

Schuijer, Michiel

Hardcover

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 60

Music ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1580462707
ISBN13: 9781580462709
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Nov 30 2008
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
An engaging study -- the first ever -- of the principles used by noted scholars to unravel the masterpieces of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernists.

For the past forty years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allen Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. It has also been the subject of sometimes furious debates between music theorists and historically oriented musicologists, debates that only helped heighten its profile. Today, as oppositions have become less clear-cut, and other analytical approaches to music are gaining prominence, the time has come for a history of pitch-class set theory, its dissemination, and its role in the reception of the music of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and other modernist composers.

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