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A Theory of Music Analysis: On Segmentation and Associative Organization

A Theory of Music Analysis: On Segmentation and Associative Organization

Hanninen, Dora A.

Paperback

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 92

Sports GeneralMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1580465897
ISBN13: 9781580465892
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Jan 23 2017
Pages: 542
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A new theory of musical analysis from an award-winning author, with six detailed analyses of works from Beethoven to today.

This book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire including Western classical music from the Baroque to the present, withpotential applications to jazz and popular music, and some non-Western musics. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with precise language and a broad, flexible conceptual framework through which they can formulate and investigate questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varying degrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentationof the theory, with copious musical illustrations, is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris.

Dora A. Hanninen is professor of music theory at the Universityof Maryland. She received the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

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