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Title

A guide to musical analysis / Nicholas Cook.

Author

Cook, Nicholas, 1950-

Publication

New York : G. Braziller, 1987.

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Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

376 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Summary

The text is divided into two parts: part One deals with the most important analytical methods current in the English-speaking world, treating each in turn. They are presented method by method because each one involves a characteristic set of beliefs and it is important to identify those beliefs i order to avoid applying inappropriate techniques that produce irrelevant data. The question of how you decide what method to adopt is addressed in the second part of the book, in which given compositions rather than given analytical methods form the starting point. The analyses in this section are each designed to highlight a different aspect of analytical procedure.

Subject

Musical analysis

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one : Analytical methods -- Traditional methods of analysis -- Schenkerian analysis -- Psychological approaches to analysis. What is meant by a psychological approach? ; Leonard Meyer ; Rudolph Reti -- Formal approaches to analysis. What is meant by a "formal approach?" ; Set-theoritical analysis ; Semiotic analysis -- Techniques of comparative analysis -- What does musical analysis tell us? -- Part two : Worked examples of analysis -- Starting an analysis. Schumann, "Auf einer Berg" (from Liederkreis) ; Canticle [Plainchant] : Song of Simeon ; Britten, "Pan" (from Six Metamorphses after Ovid) -- Analyzing music in sonata form. Beethoven, Piano sonata op. 49 no. 2 (first movement) ; Beethoven, String quartet op. 18 no. 2 (first movement) ; Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 (first movement) ; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique (first movement) -- Analyzing serial music. Webern, Piano piece (op. posth.) ; Webern, Piano variations (first movement) Stravinsky, Movements for piano orchestra, no. 4 ; Schoenberg, Piano piece, op. 33a -- Some problem pieces. Chopin, Polonaise-fantaisie ; Schoenberg, Six little piano pieces, op. 19 no. 3 ; Stockhausen, Klavierstuck III ; Stockhausen, Stimmung.

ISBN

0807611727 :

LCCN

^^^87000727^/MN

OCLC

15132400

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library