Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Hermann, editors.
Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
1995.
1 online resource (x, 449 pages) :
illustrations.
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beyond unity : toward an understanding of musical postmodernism / Jonathan D. Kramer -- Art-science of music after two millennia / Robert Cogan -- Aspects of confluence between western art music and ethnomusicology / Robert D. Morris -- Twelve-tone composition and the music of Elliott Carter / Andrew Mead -- Analysis of polyrhythm in selected improvised jazz solos / Cynthia Folio -- Generalization of contour theory to diverse musical spaces : analytical applications to the music of Dallapiccola and Stockhausen / Elizabeth West Marvin -- Beatles as composers : the genesis of Abbey Road, side two / Walter Everett -- Structural factors in the microcanonic compositions of Gyorgy Ligeti / Jane Piper Clendinning -- Theory, analysis, and the "problem" of minimal music / Jonathan W. Bernard -- Question of climax in Ruth Crawford's string quartet, Mvt. 3 / Ellie M. Hisama -- Does the song remain the same? : questions of authorship and identification in the music of Led Zeppelin / Dave Headlam -- Theories of chordal shape, aspects of linguistics, and their roles in structuring Berio's Sequenza IV for piano / Richard Hermann -- Stylistic competencies, musical satire, and "this is spinal tap" / John Covach -- Music theory and the postmodern muse : an afterword / Nicholas Cook.
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This volume of fourteen essays surveys a diverse range of compositional practices and analytical approaches to music from the second half of the century. The book is divided into three sections: Compositional Poietics, Some Structuralist Approaches, and Insights from Other Disciplines.